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Hi all! Great big Thanks to the creators/developers/programmers. It's a great program to allow me to use/learn other different and even unusual operating systems. But sadly, I'm not just writing to praise this nifty little and powerful program. It seems as of the latest update, no bootable ISO will boot the system to run the installation process, but only errors with a black screen for a while, then a bsod. Usually in windows 2000, and or XP Pro. Or a black screen with a no bootable media found for Vista and 7. These ISOs were obtained from archive.org or hopefully other reputable sites and in all cases downloaded multiple times. I do have the Cd/DVD as the first boot device. I can access my existing guests, I have about 20 with a few being clones. My system is a GT76 TITAN DT-039, I upgraded the memory to 128 Gb, it also has 3 2 Tb NVMe drives and a 4 Tb data SATA3 SSD. It has a 4k screen @60htz as well. I have watched many Youtube videoes on the install process for these OSes. I am running Windows 10, though not the latest update. Also, Virtualization is enabled in the BIOS. Oh, and one more thing, I don't get the window asking for a bootable drive that you would get after starting the guest to begin the installation process. Even though I selected the same ISO under the storage tab, when increasing certain settings after creating the "SYSTEM" in Virtualbox. Also, with one of my guests i turned off the overhead menu in the host window, how do i turn it back on? Is it possible to change the host from Right CTRL to Left CTRL? I use a Rii mini keyboard i8 which doesn't have a CTRL key on the right. Thanks in advance! Sincerely, J.A.M.

Please pick a single example VM, describe a problem clearly, and provide a VM log file: make sure the VM is fully shut down, then right click it in the manager UI. Select "Show Log" and save "VBox.log" (no other file) to a zip file. Attach the zip here.

In addition to the VM log per Mpack's request, please ask these following questions in two new topics (One issue per thread):

GG1-2332 wrote:Also, with one of my guests i turned off the overhead menu in the host window, how do i turn it back on? Is it possible to change the host from Right CTRL to Left CTRL?

And please don't end each sentence with three !'s, it's hard to read and to provide help. Periods are good...

As you posted "Virtualization is enabled in the BIOS." I suspect you have hyper-V enabled.

If you do then you have two options:
1) Try the 6.1.35 test build. Save the test build installer until you update again later. You'll need it if your host's MSI installation database goes south (they do) and the installer will not be available for download after the next even-number version gets released.
2) Disable Hyper-V in Windows using the instructions see HMR3Init: Attempting fall back to NEM (Hyper-V is active).