Unable to install Windows 7 on OS X 10.8.5

[Awkward at Best]

Hey guys, having a bit of a problem here with an installation. Needed to make a VM for Windows-only software that one of the operations people at my company requires.

They're on OS X 10.8.5 and I'm trying to install Windows 7 onto her machine via version 4.3.26 of VB.

I created a VMDK for the file and mounted it, but am getting the "A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine..." notification.

Trying to look through the logs, I couldn't personally see anything jumping out at me as the cause of the error. They are attached so someone more knowledgable than myself can take a look.

Vbox_log_and_png.zip

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Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really hope that it isn't some glaring oversight on my part, but will just be happy if you can help me get past this.

Thank you.

[loukingjr]

How did you create the vmdk file?

[Awkward at Best]

Inserted the USB drive into the machine and then unmounted it through Disk Utility.

Then I used the following command as the root user to create the VMDK:
sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename (file path).vmdk -rawdisk (USB location)

From there I used the root user to modify the permissions of both the USB drive and the VMDK to 777 so it would be open to the user account that I was trying to install it on.

Mounted it to SATA Port 0 and got that error. I tried SATA port 1, but nothing happens when mounted to there.

[loukingjr]

Now you've lost me. I don't do any raw disk access since I've never had a need to. I also don't see any mention of Windows being installed although based on the log it obviously has been.

One thing I did notice is the Windows 7 guest only has 18MB of VRAM assigned and needs something closer to 128MB. I'm sure someone else will come along to help.

[Awkward at Best]

When creating the VM I allocated 512MB of memory to it. Weird that it's saying that it only has 18MB. Also, it never went through the installation. The moment that I try to boot the VM it it gives the error.

Also, I'm not greatly familiar with creating VMs. I've only successfully installed Ubuntu on another OS X host for the purpose of running a multicast repeater for the office (needed the users on wireless to be able to connect to the Apple TVs on ethernet across VLANs). This was the only method that I was able to come across when researching the process of getting Windows onto OS X from a USB drive.

If you know of a better way of creating a proper boot file to install Windows 7 onto the OS X host, I'm more than game for it. It just needs to be able to boot from USB, as the laptop doesn't have a CD drive and we don't currently have an external. I have a Windows 7 installation disk and a Windows tower with CD drive for creation of the boot drive.

Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.

[loukingjr]

Actually I said VRAM not RAM. Under the display settings.

[loukingjr]

Since you have a Windows install disk, and you have a tower with a CD drive, you could create an .iso from the install disk and copy the .iso to the machine you want to have Windows 7 on and install it like a normal guest. Unless it is an OEM install disk from Dell, etc. They cannot be used to create a working Windows guest.

[Awkward at Best]

I was able to find one of our employees that had a personal external CD drive that I am now borrowing.

Thank you for helping with it. Should this not resolve the matter somehow I'll post again.

[loukingjr]

yvw.