Virtualbox crashing

[MikeHunt79]

A while back I had a few virtualbox machines set up to use iplayer and 4od.

These worked great so I kept the hard disk images - they are .vdi files

Now, I missed spooks tonight, so I thought I'd boot one of my machines and use iplayer to download the episode, but I've found Windows XP crashes (bluescreens) on boot under VB.

Now, I was wondering is this because I'm using a new version of VB as I don't know what version I used to create the original hard disk image files?

 

[MikeHunt79]

It just doesn't boot windows, it tries to boot, bluescreens, reboots, then offers to boot into "safe mode" which doesn't work either.

I'll try changing the advanced options, perhaps disabling network etc.

I've made a new virtual machine, and it works fine so it's not my PC causing problems...

 

[MikeHunt79]

My host machine is exactly machine, but I think that because I'm using a newer version of VB, it doesn't play ball with hard disk images made in an older version of VB.

I'll try getting an older version of VB and see if that works...

 

[MikeHunt79]

to save the hassle, i'd just use the newest version and quickly install xp on it

i've not had a problem using newer vbox versions tbh... i use vbox in work

Yep this is what I done in the end, made a new machine and used an ISO to install - XP installs very quickly this way.

I think there's a utility that can extract files from VDI files also, if not I'll just mount them as a 2nd drive, as there's still some files I need from my old VDI files.

 

[MikeHunt79]

Will do - I remember seeing something over at the VirtualBox forums a while back, but I have a feeling it didn't work too well...