I'm new to Virtualbox and decided to test Windows 7 in guest mode before I decide wether or not to upgrade my existing Windows XP installation.
But when I try to power up the virtual machine I get the following error:
Followed by:Cannot access the kernel driver!
Make sure the kernel module has been loaded successfully.
These are the settings I use:Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Windows 7.
Virtual machine 'Windows 7' has terminated unexpectedly during startup.
Details:
Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: Machine
Interface: IMachine {540dcfda-3df2-49c6-88fa-033a28c2ff85}
I have 2gb of physical RAM available to Windows XP.
I have assigned 1gb to the guest (Windows 7).
Tried disabling various settings for the guest but this does not seem to make any difference.
Rebooted after installing Virtual Box 3.0.6.
I seem unable to even try the virtual machine because of this. Any ideas why this might happen?