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Hello, I have been trying to use/setup VM on the latest version of Pop OS.

I've downloaded both windows 10 and 8.1, yet struggle to get this to load. Each time it allows me to select the language and country, goes to another screen and says WINDOWS SETUP, SELECT DRIVER TO INSTALL, LOAD DRIVER, A MEDIA DRIVER YOUR COMPUTER NEEDS IS MISSING, THIS COULD BE A DVD, USB......

When selecting on any media that I have made a bootable disk it goes no further only to repeat the above message.

Any ideas and help would be appreciated.

MarkB1975 wrote: I've downloaded both windows 10 and 8.1 ...

From where?

Thanks for the reply, directly from the Windows site, one for 8.1 and one for 10, software-download/windows8ISO, then made a bootable USB and DVD.

Use the ISOs directly in the guest's CD drive. The DVD should work, but will be dead-dog slow. The bootable USB is a non-starter, since a Virtualbox guest cannot boot from a USB stick*.

(* and other boot-from-USB-anyway tutorials available on the internet are not supported and might break eventually, if not already)

MarkB1975 wrote:Hello, I have been trying to use/setup VM on the latest version of Pop OS.

I've downloaded both windows 10 and 8.1, yet struggle to get this to load. Each time it allows me to select the language and country, goes to another screen and says WINDOWS SETUP, SELECT DRIVER TO INSTALL, LOAD DRIVER, A MEDIA DRIVER YOUR COMPUTER NEEDS IS MISSING, THIS COULD BE A DVD, USB......

In >95% of the cases this error points to a corrupted download of the windows ISO.
What is the size of the .ISO file? Can you compare the checksum of the source and your download?