Help Win7 host WinVista guest

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sacchetta
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Help Win7 host WinVista guest

Post by sacchetta »

I have a HD image of WinVista Home that a made using the disk2vhd utility.
I installed Virtualbox 3.2.10 on my desktop with Win7.
I try to start the Vista image and it runs properly but it stops accidentally with a blue screen (to fast to read) and the virtual system just restart.
This happens every time I try to start it.
I have a log.
Can someone help me pls?
Sorry for my English I'm not a native English.
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Perryg
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Re: Help Win7 host WinVista guest

Post by Perryg »

Will the virtual machine start in safe mode?
Was it 32 or 64 bit?
sacchetta
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Re: Help Win7 host WinVista guest

Post by sacchetta »

Thank you for your attention.
What does mean "in safe mode"?
Windows Vista was 32-bit.
Windows Seven is 64-bit and Virtualbox is installed on it.
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Re: Help Win7 host WinVista guest

Post by Perryg »

Turn off IO APIC in the guest settings.
to start Windows in safe mode you press F8 at boot time then select safe mode.
sacchetta
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Re: Help Win7 host WinVista guest

Post by sacchetta »

Ok I did it.
The loading process stops on the file crcdisk.sys
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Re: Help Win7 host WinVista guest

Post by BillG »

Sounds like you have a corrupt vhd. If you still have the disk from the Vista install I would run disk2vhd again.

I have converted a Vista installation to vhd using disk2vhd a couple of times and it worked with no problems.
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sacchetta
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Re: Help Win7 host WinVista guest

Post by sacchetta »

I have the following problem:
when I run Disk2vhd it looks fine until the last phase but it will not present the close-button. It stops with full-progress-bar (means it should have done the system disk convertion) and the cancel-button is still active.
When I press the cancel-button (after waiting a long, long time), it takes no notice about that. So I have to press the (x) to end it.............
Any suggestions to make a good .vhd image on Vista?
(maybe disabling the antivirus?)
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