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Hi,

I've never used Virtual Box, and was referred to it for a piece of software that only runs on Windows .

I have a Mac. I was running 10.4, but Virtual Box wouldn't run below 10/5.
I upgraded to 10.6 (SnowLeopard). Upgrade seems to work fine.

I loaded out the VirtualBox software - it selects my hard drive and seems to load fine.
The VBox window seems open fine. I get the window that gives me the New, Settings and Start
icons.

The bar below says "Powered Off"
I click "Start", get "spawning session", then a drop down telling me about the Auto Capture keyboard.
I click "OK" and get "Starting Virtual Machine"
Then the FATAL message indicated above shows up in the black window, and I'm dead in the water.

Suggestions?

Many thanks.

Do you have a bootable Windows XP CD in the CD drive or an ISO image mounted in VirtualBox?

No, nothing in the drive.

larryrutter wrote:No, nothing in the drive.

Nice joke. Read the Manual and/or FAQ. VBOX is an emulation of a pc, not windows.

Stefan,

Thanks for the dig. Perhaps this product isn't for me after all.

Sorry you didn't understand that I was looking for help.

Guess I'll go somewhere else.

L.

larryrutter wrote:Stefan,

Thanks for the dig. Perhaps this product isn't for me after all.

Sorry you didn't understand that I was looking for help.

Guess I'll go somewhere else.

L.

What do you mean? We are trying to figure out what you are trying to do. Are you trying to install Windows XP in a VM without a Windows XP CD or ISO image?

What Stefan is pointing out is that is not possible. VirtualBox does not supply the Windows XP OS. You must have a legal copy of it to install.

Thank you, yes, I guess that became clear. As a VM neophyte, and being told that VBox was what
I needed to run this other software, I didn't realize that I needed a copy of Windows as well. Until now.
Of courser, that makes sense - now.

Being told that I was joking and to RTFM, wasn't what I was looking for.

Thanks anyway.

Larry