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winxp aborts when installing in virtualbox

Asked by ghook

I have just joined the Ubuntu community by installing 8.04 LTS on a spare Gateway 600L laptop. I would like to run WinXP in a VM and have installed VirtualBox 1.5.6. First after using the Synaptic Package Installer to install Virtualbox (didn't work) I uninstalled and used the forums tutorial for installing VB 1.5.6. VB is operational and I've created a Kbuntu and a Fedora 9 VM. When I try to create a VM for WinXP the VM boots, load the Windows setup, asks for the install HD. When I try to format the drive using NTFS (Quick) or FAT (Quick) the install gets to 20% on the progress bar and then hangs.....the HD is cranking away for about 10 minutes until the VM window closes and aborts the install? I've searched through the forums but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.

thx...

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Pascal Bach (pascal-bach) said : 		#1

Hi.

Have you tried upgrading to Virtualbox 1.6 ? You can grab it at www.virtualbox.org maybe this helps.

Kind Regards
Pascal

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ghook (gary-hook) said : 		#2

Nope...neither 1.6 nor 1.5.6 versions work when I try to install WinXP......I can create a Fedora-9 VM just fine....also can create a Knoppix VM fine. WinXP won't get past the 20% disk format before it aborts.

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Edwin Graven (edwin-ubuntu) said : 		#3

today VirtualBox 1.6.2 is released by Sun Microsystems, Inc
in this version you're problem with crashing windows installer should be fixed
according to the change log
VMM: fixed a regression introduced in 1.6.0: Windows stuck during installation

hope this helps

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Pascal Bach (pascal-bach) said : 		#4

Have you been able to install WinXP?

Regards Pascal

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