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hi.

got a problem with win7 and virtualbox 2.2.2

downloaded win7 rc 64bit from microsoft (took me 2 hours of my life!).
i tried to start win7 in the vb, but first of all i see "Windows loading files ..." after a dew seconds a black screen with "Starting Windows" comes up and thats the end. nothing! (waited another 2hours).
dont know why. the iso is selected and it starts but then... hmm...

my pc:
cpu: phenom 9950
ram: 6gb 800mhz
ati hd4870 @ 1gb

virtualbox 2.2.2 settings for win7
ram 2048 (also checkd 3gb and 1gb)
graphic 32/64 (tried alot...)
iso from hdd

can someone pls help me?
thx

ps: i'm new to here. sorry for my bad english. i tried the search function but didnt find such a problem just other win7 problems.

mindshaker wrote:hi.

virtualbox 2.2.2 settings for win7
ram 2048 (also checkd 3gb and 1gb)

I had a similar problem installing Win7RC (Build 7100) 32 Bit

My installation was successful when specifying 1498 MB main memory for the guest.
So it seems there is a problem with the amount of allocated memory.

Wolfgang

I have probaly the same problem reported yesterday.
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=17371

Its hard that Win7 breaks the whole system and not only the Guest. I guess VB is not safe against something .

okay im trying 1498mb ram.
ill reply when i tried it. hope thats just that the problem.

@hexxer:
your whole system freezes or just vb?

in my case just vb freezes. host is working normally. (host vista x64)

Mine went well:
I left default (Mem at 512), changed the video memory to 128meg, turned on PAE, and IO-APIC. Installed easy. GA went smooth too.

Also make sure that this is a new install. Windows 7 does not support trying to upgrade a previous copy of Windows 7

Hi,

here my hole system freezes up. I opend a Bug -> http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3951#preview

I dont upgrade my old win7-Guest, thats runs perfect and i try to install this again - thats works.
System frezzes up with Win7 364bit Iso-image. The 32bit system works perfect.

Could this be a problem with a 32bit Host and a 64bit Guest?

hexxer wrote:Hi,

here my hole system freezes up. I opend a Bug -> http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3951#preview

I dont upgrade my old win7-Guest, thats runs perfect and i try to install this again - thats works.
System frezzes up with Win7 364bit Iso-image. The 32bit system works perfect.

Could this be a problem with a 32bit Host and a 64bit Guest?

Could be. While Vista was not too concerned with the bios VT-x/AMD-v being turned on Win 7 might. I will need to do some more research.

I am having this problem too. In my case, I believe that it is caused by the GRUB boot loader on my physical hard disk. This is something I have seen a lot when installing Windows on systems that were Linux. Though this doesn't make sense completely since I'd assume VB doesn't access the physical hard drive.

I think I had to try to install 3 times for success. Firt time froze second time memory error and third time install success (though compared to the earliar beta this is alot slower to react than before)

I was so into trying the corner snap but even with 1500mb it was a horrible choppy first experience.

If we're grumy imagine the retail testers if they have a similar copy to us .

so.
thx 4 your help.
its working.

virtualbox 2.1.4
ACPI + IO APIC + Vt-x/AMD-V + Nested Paging --> all activated
RAM: 2048
HDD: 50gb
graphic: 128mb

working perfect without problems.

thx 4 ur help buddys