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Hello,

I have the latest OSX Version and VirtualBox 4.2.0 r80737 running. I created a vmware image from my windows pc (xp professionell). When I start the image he vmware windows opens but it stays black with cursor in left upper corner. When I switch it off and reboot again I got the message that windows was stopped properly and can switch with different starting modes.
Then I tested two other vm images from other PCs (XP and Windows 7 as well). Same issue.
Then I tried to create a new VirtualBox image in which I tried to install a Windows 7 iso-image. The windows setup starts but then I got the message that no drivers can be found.
Any hints, suggesstions?
I am mostly interested to port my old pc image.
Thanks in advance
Stefan

Enable IO APIC in the VM settings.

Hi,

thanks a lot, that worked fine for the "not important" test system. For the system I am mainly interested it didn't helped. Now a blue screen appears for less than a second and I am not able to capture the error message.
Any other suggestions?
Thank in advance
Stefan

Usually it's that you need to select an IDE disk controller (not SATA). In fact add a PIIX4 IDE controller (this may exist already with the CD-ROM attached to it), move the hard disks onto that and remove the SATA controller. SATA support can be added in the future, but in the meantime the guest has the wrong driver and therefore can't currently boot from the hdd.