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I created a virtual image of a running machine (XP Pro -> vmdx) and attempted to open it on 10.6.8. When it first loaded it detected new hardware and wne t through the process of adding it. However, at that it restarted and when it got to just before the login screen where it is says Windows is starting up it changes to Windows in shutting down.

I've been unable to figure out what is wrong. Can anyone help? I've tried running the VM with virtualbox 4.0.16, 4.1.16, and 4.1.16 w/ the extension pack.

According to the log (attached)

A partial log is not very satisfying. Please post the complete log as a zipped attachment (not pasted text).

mpack wrote:A partial log is not very satisfying. Please post the complete log as a zipped attachment (not pasted text).

Log attached in the original post.

The log seems to show that it ran for more than a minute before the shutdown, so it doesn't look like something happened suddenly during the boot. Are you sure you didn't close the window, thus causing the shutdown?

00:00:00.439 Host RAM: 8192MB RAM, available: 1003MB
00:00:00.661 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000040000000 (1073741824)

You are allocating 1GB RAM, which is almost all you have have available. When you add virtual VRAM it is more than you have available. I would reduce guest RAM to 512MB (a good number for XP), and/or free up some host RAM.

Did you use VMware converter to do this? Is that why it's in VMDK format? If yes then you should be aware that the VMware tools must be removed. It is sometimes more reliable to use Disk2VHD on the original XP host. Either way I think it's a good idea to convert the disk to VDI before use (VBoxManage clonehd <disk filename> --format VDI").

A physical to virtual migration is often shortened to "P2V" for the purposes of discussion. It may be worth your while search this site for that term, using Google, i.e. "P2V site:forums.virtualbox.org".