Vista VMDK

[lando]

I 've installed VBox on ubuntu 8.04.1 to see if VMDK of my Vista image can work.
I 've not found many instructions on the guide about this..
First step ,I 've converted vmdk to vdi....and it has worked....

Lando-desktop:~$ VBoxManage clonehd /media/disk/lando/datastore4/VISTA/VISTA.vmdk /media/disk/lando/VISTA1.vdi --format VDI
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.2.4
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Clone hard disk created in format 'VDI'. UUID: 88552387-5fdf-40a7-ad81-40ffb286b82d


Then I 've built a VM using /media/disk/lando/VISTA1.vdi ( just cloned..) as disk .

Last step , I 've tryed to boot Vista...(start VM ) .
Vista shows a window suggesting a startup repair then
window Boot manager says that startup is unsuccesfully terminated with status 0xc000000f .(some device inaccessible )
Have I done a mistake ? The partition where is installed the .vdi is not where is installed Ubuntu (and Vbox..) , is it a problem ?
Vista works under VNware server 2 .

Many thanks.
Regards.

[Perryg]

This usually happens when you had a device selected in the original VM that is not selected in the one you just made for this replacement. It can be USB, audio, different network adapter, even a mounted CD/DVD drive. You will need to adjust the new settings to match the old one for it to work. Since this is Windows you are talking about it gets really mad when you change things so it is more critical then say a Linux Disto. Actually if you still have the VMDK and OVF files and you are using version 2.2.0 or later of VBox you should just try to import it. That way the settings (most of them) will be transferred into VBox. But keep in mind that Windows gets really upset if anything changes, so it can be a little difficult to do.

[lando]

This usually happens when you had a device selected in the original VM that is not selected in the one you just made for this replacement. It can be USB, audio, different network adapter, even a mounted CD/DVD drive. You will need to adjust the new settings to match the old one for it to work. Since this is Windows you are talking about it gets really mad when you change things so it is more critical then say a Linux Disto. Actually if you still have the VMDK and OVF files and you are using version 2.2.0 or later of VBox you should just try to import it. That way the settings (most of them) will be transferred into VBox. But keep in mind that Windows gets really upset if anything changes, so it can be a little difficult to do.

It is a kind of bingo ! I 've tried all the possible solution about < USB, audio, different network adapter, even a mounted CD/DVD drive> without results !...but remember that the same Vista.vmdk works
under VMware server 2...then it is a Vbox fault !
i ' ve converted to .ovf so to allow the import....without results !

[lando]

Enabling IO APIC Vista boots !!!!!!!