Installing Windows XP on Solaris 10u7

[craig.hummer]

Hi all,

New to the board. I've used VirtualBox under Windows for quite some time now but I have just installed under Solaris 10 u7 and hit an issue.

When I create a client for Windows XP (or Vista), the installation reaches the "Starting Windows" point (where I believe the HDD is accessed) and the machine aborts and powers off.

The Solaris Server is a 40Gb VM (Vmware) with 2 CPU's and 4Gb RAM.

I'm sure its something pretty basic I'm missing, can anyone help?

Thanks,

Craig

[craig.hummer]

Also, I've just copied a fully working XP vdi from my laptop, added it to a new machine in VirtualBox under Solaris and this will not start either.

[mpack]

Are you saying that your Solaris host is also a VM?

If so, you can't run one hypervisor type VM platform inside another.

[craig.hummer]

Thanks for the response, so I could run the Sun Ray VDI from a VMWare based Solaris install but the VirtualBox Storage Server has to be a physical?

[mpack]

Sorry, I can make little sense of your last comment - I said nothing about where storage is located.

You gave me the impression that you were trying to get a VirtualBox VM (the VM which failed to run XP setup) running on a Solaris "host" which was itself in fact a VMware guest. That will not work. A VMWare or VirtualBox (or any other hypervisor type) VM must have a physical host.