[Novalug] Problem w/ Win Install in VirtualBox VM (John Holland)

John Holland jbholland@gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 20:05:33 EST 2010


If you set up a VM that has the virtual disk you created as part of it, 
connect its virtual DVD drive to your real drive (as opposed to a .iso 
image) and your Windows disk is in that drive, and set "boot options" to 
boot from DVD it should all "just work" ......


On 12/02/2010 08:02 PM, Roger W. Broseus wrote:
> John: no insult to my intelligence - that would be very hard to do :).
>
> In any event, I did create a virtual HD - a "virtual disk image" (of 
> the dynamically expanding image type) and I see a corresponding .vdi 
> file on my HD in Linux.
>
> Still lost and looking . . ..
>
> -- 
> Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
>     Email: RogerB@bronord.com
>     Web Site: www.bronord.com
>
>
> On 12/02/2010 07:06 PM, novalug-request@calypso.tux.org wrote:
>>     5. Re: Problem w/ Win Install in VirtualBox VM (John Holland)
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:42:22 -0500
>> From: John Holland<jbholland@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Novalug] Problem w/ Win Install in VirtualBox VM
>> To:novalug@calypso.tux.org
>> Message-ID:<4CF82EDE.2090203@gmail.com>
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>> You may need to create a virtual disk for it to use. Your VirtualBox
>> window should have a Storage item in the list of devices on the left.
>> See if you have a disk in there. If not you can create one to add to the
>> VM via a wizard sort of feature in VirtualBox.
>>
>> (apologies if this information insults your intelligence)
>




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