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HI,

I am trying to create a XP guest on Mountain Lion. I have installed and used many guests on this platform that boot from ISO. But, Windows XP does not do this. How do I set the CD to autoboot?

VBox 4.2.0

Thanks.

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Ron Reidy

You mount a host CD in the VM in the same way that you mount an ISO - it's just a different choice of media in the virtual drive. However, if you can't get it to work then you can always just make an ISO or DMG image of the CD and use that.

Some XP CDs are not bootable. this has been discussed several times in the forum
Google: Windows XP Boot CD site:forums.virtualbox.org