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I recently bought a Lenovo computer, and it came with Vista. I'd rather run Ubuntu for my main OS, and install Vista into virtualbox using the recovery disk, but for some reason it doesn't seem to work.

When I put it in and try to boot to disc, it works. It even goes as far as loading windows, and continues as far as a Lenovo screen. But once it gets to that screen, it sits there for a bit and then restarts. In essence, this creates a loop that never quite lets me install Vista. Each time it loads and loads, and then restarts.

Does anybody else have any experience with this or know a solution? It seems like the Virtualbox sandbox may not look enough like a Lenovo computer, and it's therefore giving up, but I figure there must be a way around this right? I DO have a legitimate Vista key...

Thanks.

OEM installs like these are tied into specific hardware, a VM does not have these components and thus the install can't be completed, you can try doing a full normal install, then dump it with clonezilla and load it into a VM, it might run then.

Shoot. Well, that's about what I feared, I guess. Maybe I can pull this off with a new hard drive that I have laying around. Thanks for the response.