[clug-talk] Virtual Box Troubles

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Have you tried a pre-built image of 2K yet? There are pre-built images  
on the web....... somewhere.

Dave Watkins

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Sent from my iPhone, pardon the brevity.

On 2010-05-25, at 14:11, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca> wrote:

> On 10-05-25 12:59 PM, GJM wrote:
>> I have been trying to install windows2k in VirtualBox environment  
>> with
>> little success. Have the latest version of VB but it seems that all  
>> goes
>> well until after I config the networking which seems to be able to  
>> log on to
>> the domain and as the installation proceeds to finish loading files  
>> from the
>> install CD it crashes and then wants to start the install procedure  
>> over
>> from scratch. Have deleted the file and created a new machine  
>> several times
>> with the same results..... anybody got an idea of what maybe  
>> happening.....
>> cause I am fresh out of them and this is my first experience with VB.
>>
> Are you installing from a physical CD or an ISO?  There is not a lot  
> of
> information here but my first instinct would be to check the win2k
> install media.  Either the disk is scratched or the iso is corrupt.
>
> To verify that your virtualbox environment is sane try doing an  
> install
> of XP.  My second instinct is that win2k is choking on one of the
> virtualized hardware devices.  I know that XP works fine as a guest in
> VB so if XP installs fine then there is something that win2k just
> doesn't like.
>
>> The host machine is running a fresh copy of XP with all updates and  
>> has a
>> dual core cpu and 4g of ram.
>> Haven't tried using linux as the host OS yet tho that was where I was
>> wanting to end up at the end of this project
>>
> There may be issues with your XP host and permissions.  I had a client
> that had problems a while back until he had local admin privs on the
> host (XP) OS.  These days I only have Windows as guests (either in
> VMWare or VB).
>
>> Also... have googled and looked for info... nothing I found helped
>
> Hth,
>
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