importing VHD

[GregoryCW]

Hello all,

I have used VirtualBox on XP, Vista and now on Windows 7 RC. Most of my work has been running Linux on Windows.

I downloaded from Microsoft a trial Vista VHD. It does load under VirtualPC but won't map the networkcard. So, I used vboxmanage to convert it to vdi -- 13G, took a little time.

I then created a Vista VM and attached the converted vdi. It doesn't work:

FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.

I have tried some combinations of settings: VT-x on and off, different IDE controller types. No go.

I realize getting this to work was a bit of a stretch. But if someone knows how, I'd like to hear about it!

Thanks.

[Perryg]

Known issue. The images that you download from MS as set to use the VPC and anything else will force a verification which will not pass. According to MS they report that validation key as lost or stolen so they will work in VPC but once they see a hardware change the go astray. Plus if it is a VHD file it will work by default in VBox if you remove the MS VPC additions first, but here again it will see a hardware change and if it is a trial download from MS you are out of luck.

[GregoryCW]

Thanks for the reply and the info. I have tried several variations without success. The one that I haven't tried is using qemu, convert the vhd file to a bin.

More info: the VHD being released do not work with Windows 7 (RTM) with the new Windows Virual PC program.

MS on the other hand, is not releasing ISO copies, at least not for the trial copies.