The guest is Windows XP from an OVF file that was exported from VMWare.
The host is Ubuntu 8.04
VirtualBox 3.0.4
It begins the startup sequence, I see the windows splash screen etc, then I see some white-on-blue writing that vanishes too fast for me to read and we are back to the VirtualBox splash screen. I presume I have some bad hardware config. I did have to trim down the required memory that was initially configured (from the OVF) and maybe I needed to change something else too. Trouble is I can't read the message to find out what. Does anyone have an approach to solving this?
Further info that may be relevant. I tried a CD install into another Virtual Machine of Windows 2000. The install goes okay and when Win2k actually boots something goes bad (again I can't see what) and it reboots. This is a different problem, I think. It looks a bit different. I'm not really interested in getting win2k running but it might be relevant to the first issue
Thanks