Win7 Bootcamp Issue

[Telli]

I am trying to run Windows 7 from my bootcamp partition with virtualbox: i unmounted the partition, changed permissions for the drive, created a raw disk image and then changed the permissions to the newly created files, then i created a new VM and added the vmdk under the IDE controller and changed the type to ich6; i already tried to change some options like the number of cores available or video memory or hardware acceleration but everytime i get a BSOD saying BAD_POOL_CALLER; i tried booting into safe mode but it doesn't work. Any suggest is really appreciated. A year ago i succeeded creating this VM but this is not the same Win7 i used before.

My Mac is a Macbook pro 5,3 (mid 2009) with a 3,06 GHz core 2 duo, 8 GB Ram, 750 HDD 7200 rpm

[JimBushWhack]

You did not mention what version of VirtualBox nor what version of MacOS X you were using. But, here is a method of doing this that worked for me:

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=48704

[Telli]

Ops, forgot to mention: i am running VirtualBox 4.1.20 on OSX 10.7.4. I already tried that method but it doesn't work: everytime i got that annoying BSOD

[JimBushWhack]

One thought I had after re-reading your post is the fact that I only was able to get this to work on the 32Bit version of Windows 7. I had previously tried a 64bit version and was not able to get it to come up. Thats not to say that a 64bit version will not work, I had just given up on that and reinstalled my Bootcamp partition with a 32bit version of windows. I had done this sometime ago when my Mac was still running Snow Leopard. So I have not tried a 64bit version recently. I don't remember now what the symptoms of the problem were, it was so long ago.

[ChipMcK]

Not all of apple's hardware/software can run window 64 bit systems
check out your model, date produced, release of OS X

[blueytoo]

My 64 bit host and guest seem to work mostly fine, except for the bootcamp control panel. 3d graphics is unstable. (specs in sig)