multi-/single-core processor support and boot.ini

[matman]

I'm building a Windows XP installation for booting from native and VM described at Windows XP: In both VM and native (using Linux as host OS) and i'm missing an important explanation about: how the suggested boot.ini will work. Now i made some changes in the boot.ini like this:

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multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="WinXP (vm)" /execute /fastdetect /kernel=ntkrnlsp.exe /hal=halsp.dll
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="WinXP (native - SMP)" /execute /fastdetect /kernel=ntkrnlmp.exe /hal=halmacpi.dll

And now i'm not sure what to do next. If i boot from native, how can Windows know which line of boot.ini the OS have to use, in this case the line with WINDOWS="WinXP (native - SMP)"? Shouldn't there be an explanation about what i have to do to tell Windows which Hardware (native or VM) is booting?

[jorgensen]

My Computer->Properties->Advanced->Startup and Recovery->Settings->Default operating system

[matman]

Hmmmm... this was not what i mean. But okay, i've found it. Now i have two boot menus, one from boot.ini and one in cause of the hardware profiles.

This is okay for me, but now i have another problem, most likely in cause of the changes i made in boot.ini: Now auto update is not working. But if i go to the settings Windows tells me that auto update is active. Why this? What can i do? I'm using Windows XP SP3.

[jorgensen]

This forum is for VirtualBox problems, and not for purely Windows problems.
Check one of the many Windows forums or Google it.