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Perhaps this is nothing, but during the installation of a new VM of Windows 2000, the installation began as usual, then came to a warning message which told me that it (the Win2k installation disc) recognized that another operating system was found and that if I continued the installation would wipe out my hard drive and install Windows 2000. Scary! So I canceled the installation.

I searched the forum to see if anyone else has encountered this. There's nothing in the manual. This is normal behavior for this installation; I encountered it many times back when I used to install Windows on PCs meant for Windows. But I'm not sure what this really means in the context of a VM on VirtualBox. Was it really going to wipe out OS X?!

My host is a Mac mini (sweet!) running Snow Leopard. 4G RAM, 320G drive.

Assuming you used the defaults to create the VM hard drive (a vdi image file that stores the guest OS), then all it's going to do is install over the Windows that's in the guest OS image, not the OS X on the host.

Oh. Okay. I'll give it a try -- after I backup my Mac. Thanks. - Ponter