New to VB and Mac mini: win-7-64

[vdotmatrix]

Hello all:

My Mac mini is a few days old 2.7hz,i7 16gb on lion 10.7.

I installed the latest VB and the windows-7 in 64bit flavor.

Installed guest devices.

I have tried install many windows programs from games to WORD and nothing want to launch. (command and conquer, battlefield 1942, microsoft office, publisher, palm desktop,)

As a programs tries to launch I will hear a deep ping in the background like something failed or an error occurred.

So i get nothing. Not one program will run in windows. Windows opens up no problem.....programs appear in the programs menu but nothing will run.

Anyone have any ideas or something i might try?

[vdotmatrix]

I have a log that I found in the console of my Mac about a VB crash I think. I am going to post it to see if anyone here can make any sense of it.

<mod edit: please upload logs as zipped attachments. I have done it for you this time>

[mpack]

A VirtualBox log from one of your VM sessions would be more useful than some random log file you found somewhere. Look for the "VBox.log" file in the "Logs" subfolder of the VM folder (in <userdata>/VirtualBox VMs). Post this log as a zipped attachment.

Posting in an appropriate forum (e.g. Mac hosts) would be great too. I'll move you there now.

[hank]

I'm a beginner myself, but a couple of thoughts:

How did you install Windows?
Did your installation pass Windows validation?
Have you run the Windows Update from Windows control panel? That doesn't finish on the first pass -- it will keep finding new updates through multiple restarts before it's caught up.

[vdotmatrix]

I'm a beginner myself, but a couple of thoughts:

How did you install Windows?
Did your installation pass Windows validation?
Have you run the Windows Update from Windows control panel? That doesn't finish on the first pass -- it will keep finding new updates through multiple restarts before it's caught up.

Well, I used virtual box and installed from a disk when prompted.
It updates now and then. I have since been able to install office and publisher.

still very new at Mac and surprised to see so many issues........looking to find the vlog

[hank]

Try repeatedly telling it to check for updates.
Each time it gets through an update, it stops checking til whatever the next time you've set as default.
You can tell it to look again, and go on updating for quite a few cycles of update/restart/check/update
Get through til it's really up to date and it'll help in many ways.

[vdotmatrix]

A VirtualBox log from one of your VM sessions would be more useful than some random log file you found somewhere. Look for the "VBox.log" file in the "Logs" subfolder of the VM folder (in <userdata>/VirtualBox VMs). Post this log as a zipped attachment.

Posting in an appropriate forum (e.g. Mac hosts) would be great too. I'll move you there now.

okay here is the zipped file.

[mpack]

That's a humungous amount of memory you've given the guest. What's that, 9GB? As an experiment I would try reducing that to 2GB, as I vaguely recall something about problems if you allocate more than 4GB.

Other than that I see no problem in the log. If reducing the memory allocation makes no difference then it would seem to be a problem inside the Win7 installation itself.

[vdotmatrix]

That's a humungous amount of memory you've given the guest. What's that, 9GB? As an experiment I would try reducing that to 2GB, as I vaguely recall something about problems if you allocate more than 4GB.

Other than that I see no problem in the log. If reducing the memory allocation makes no difference then it would seem to be a problem inside the Win7 installation itself.

THANKS, I went back in and dialed it back to 2gb like you suggested.

I was wondering, what kinds of things should I really be concerned about while looking through the CONSOLE 10.7 anyway?

[vdotmatrix]

I just wanted to update this post since once one fixes an issue yo never return to wrap up a discussion.

Once I got the 3 VB up and running for xp-pro and win-7 this thing works BEAUTIFULLY!

I don't know all the particulars on how I did what i did but i was running in a seamless mode and it is just that seamless.

I go from OSx to VB without delay.

I also set up the sharing folder so I can work on stuff in VB but i think save on my Mac's folders.

EVERYHTHING worked but not stuff like high graphics for running games and stuff...for that i had to do the bootcamp thing.

EVERYTHING THAT IS UNTIL I WENT ON A WORKING VACATION AND WHEN I TRIED TO GET TO WORK LAST NIGHT AND OPENED UP virtual box a window opened saying there is an upgrade available to 4.1.18. I thought , okay, i will just install this thing and get down to some work.....after the upgrade, seems like everything is broken and inaccessible. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5501747/VM_upgrade_diaster.tiff

So other than this little tidbit, the entire VB is awesome, but right now I am completely dead in the water, sitting in my summer rental on the beach, looking
south at the Atlantic Ocean.