Switching between hosts OS

[iperussi]

Hello there!
I use to run WinXP as guest in my macbook. However I got a new laptop (a HP Windows 8 ) and I installed VirtualBox on it. I transferred the WinXP VDI image to the new host (HP Windows 8 ) but when I start the virtual machine I got a blue death screen (that blink so fast that I can't read the error) and the virtual machine is rebooted. I'm able to load WinXP only safe mode.

Is possible a WinXP guest (VDI) that used to run on a macintosh run on a Windows 8?

Best Regards!

[mpack]

Please read: Howto: Move a VM. If the VM makes any reference to specific host paths or device names then these will need to be manually removed or corrected since the host OS has changed.

[iperussi]

Finally I'm able to run Windows XP guest on a Windows 8 host. I could not be able to run, exporting and importing, cloning or just copying the .dvi file or any other VirtualBox feature/tool.

I downloaded an update version of STPD.sys and installed on XP through the safe mode. This file is about a SCSI controller.

Seems the issue is something related to storage controller and it's about VirtualBox issue cause now I can run Windows XP but I have 2 other Linux guests and it just does not run, with the same problem in the initialisation and in this case I can't just use SPTD.sys to fix it.

I think this is something the VirtualBox developer team should take a look.

Download the file at: http://www.duplexsecure.com/downloads

That it! Thanks for your support.

Best regards.

[socratis]

This file is about a SCSI controller.
I think this is something the VirtualBox developer team should take a look.

So... let me understand. You chose to have a SCSI controller in your VM, instead of an IDE and you believe that the developer team that should look at it??? Change the SCSI controller to an IDE controller and see if that fixes it.

[iperussi]

Socratis,
my VMs controllers are IDE and the guests either...

[socratis]

my VMs controllers are IDE and the guests either...

Then why did you have to install a SCSI controller in order to make it boot? After posting the information asked for by this article, open up a Terminal and post the following output as well:

VBoxManage showvminfo "<NameOfYourVM>"

[iperussi]

Socratis,


c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe showvminfo "WinXP SP3"
Name: WinXP SP3
Groups: /
Guest OS: Windows XP
UUID: 60bb6b10-d275-454f-b651-3a3f9bf7166f
Config file: C:\Users\Suporte01\VirtualBox VMs\WinXP SP3\WinXP SP3.vbox
Snapshot folder: C:\Users\Suporte01\VirtualBox VMs\WinXP SP3\Snapshots
Log folder: C:\Users\Suporte01\VirtualBox VMs\WinXP SP3\Logs
Hardware UUID: 60bb6b10-d275-454f-b651-3a3f9bf7166f
Memory size: 1024MB
Page Fusion: off
VRAM size: 16MB
CPU exec cap: 100%
HPET: off
Chipset: piix3
Firmware: BIOS
Number of CPUs: 1
PAE: off
Long Mode: off
Synthetic CPU: off
CPUID overrides: None
Boot menu mode: message and menu
Boot Device (1): Floppy
Boot Device (2): DVD
Boot Device (3): HardDisk
Boot Device (4): Not Assigned
ACPI: on
IOAPIC: off
Time offset: 0ms
RTC: local time
Hardw. virt.ext: on
Nested Paging: on
Large Pages: on
VT-x VPID: on
VT-x unr. exec.: on
State: powered off (since 2014-01-02T12:54:10.000000000)
Monitor count: 1
3D Acceleration: off
2D Video Acceleration: off
Teleporter Enabled: off
Teleporter Port: 0
Teleporter Address:
Teleporter Password:
Tracing Enabled: off
Allow Tracing to Access VM: off
Tracing Configuration:
Autostart Enabled: off
Autostart Delay: 0
Default Frontend:
Storage Controller Name (0): IDE
Storage Controller Type (0): PIIX4
Storage Controller Instance Number (0): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (0): 2
Storage Controller Port Count (0): 2
Storage Controller Bootable (0): on
IDE (0, 0): C:\Users\Suporte01\VirtualBox VMs\WinXP SP3\WinXPSP3.vdi (UUID: 5f77
3b0a-2aa4-498b-b145-cf9615948fb1)
IDE (1, 0): Empty
NIC 1: MAC: 080027E110A5, Attachment: Bridged Interface 'Qualcomm Athe
ros AR9485 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter', Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: non
e), Type: Am79C973, Reported speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0, Promisc Policy: de
ny, Bandwidth group: none
NIC 2: disabled
NIC 3: disabled
NIC 4: disabled
NIC 5: disabled
NIC 6: disabled
NIC 7: disabled
NIC 8: disabled
Pointing Device: USB Tablet
Keyboard Device: PS/2 Keyboard
UART 1: disabled
UART 2: disabled
LPT 1: disabled
LPT 2: disabled
Audio: enabled (Driver: DSOUND, Controller: AC97)
Clipboard Mode: Bidirectional
Drag'n'drop Mode: Bidirectional
VRDE: disabled
USB: enabled
EHCI: enabled

USB Device Filters:

<none>

Available remote USB devices:

<none>

Currently Attached USB Devices:

<none>

Bandwidth groups: <none>

Shared folders:

Name: 'Public', Host path: 'C:\Users\Public' (machine mapping), writable

VRDE Connection: not active
Clients so far: 0

Video capturing: not active
Capture screens: 0
Capture file: C:\Users\Suporte01\VirtualBox VMs\WinXP SP3\WinXP SP3.webm
Capture dimensions: 1024x768
Capture rate: 512 kbps
Capture FPS: 25

Guest:

Configured memory balloon size: 0 MB