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Hello,
Two questions:
I am installing version VirtualBox-4.3.6-91406-Win on a Windows XP host.
No Guest Additions
When I start the Windows 7 VM, I get the following message;
"A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine and the machine execution has been stopped."

I also installed the same version on thumb drive and it works well. The issue is that my instructor said that my Windows 7 VM should be running IE 8 instead of IE 11 and that I must have updated it. I protested but still looked for a way to remove IE 11 and install the former to no avail. Is that possible? I also tried to create a new Windows 7 VM with IE 8 but that did not work either. Did I miss something?

Thanks,
Sim Hughes

00:00:01.607093 Host RAM: 1014MB total, 240MB available
00:00:04.257433 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000040000000 (1 073 741 824, 1 024 MB)
00:02:35.810233 VM: Raising runtime error 'HostMemoryLow' (fFlags=0x2)

Not enough RAM to run a guest

You realize that you will not be able to do anything with this guest, IE: update or save files since it is immutable to it, right Processor is very old, so even if you add RAM to the host don't expect too much from the guest.

Thanks, those answers saved me a lot of time. Another question; is it possible to run IE 8 in a Windows 7 VM as my instructor maintains? Microsoft seems to be defaulting to IE 11.

simleon wrote:is it possible to run IE 8 in a Windows 7 VM as my instructor maintains? Microsoft seems to be defaulting to IE 11.

This seems to be a question for a Windows/IE forum. VM or not has nothing to do with it.