VirtualBox installation question.

[Lucélio Gomes de Freitas]

Reindl Harald,

Problem solved. It was a Hardware problem.
I changed the Hard Drive, restored the back-up and all is working right.

Sorry for the noise.

Em 17-12-2011 16:08, Reindl Harald escreveu:
>
> Am 17.12.2011 19:11, schrieb Lucélio Gomes de Freitas:
>> Reindl Harald,
>>
>> I did exactly this.
>>
>> I updated from Fedora14-x86_64 to Fedora16-x86_64 host, and I thought VirtualBox-4.0 was ok. When I started
>> Winvista64 Guest I got the message:
>>
>> BOOTMGR is compressed Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart
>>
>> I did it, and the Winvista64 boot started again and stoped at the same point. In a loop. I thought that the problem
>> was VirtualBox for Fedora14. I removed it. So I installed Virtualbox-4.1-4.1.6 for Fedora16-x86_64. The same thing
>> is happening. Why bootmgr has changed? Anybody helps? The guest machine was working untouched in a "Production"
>> more than a year. I only updated from Fedora14 to Fedora16.
>>
>> I got from VirtualBox forum: "we don't really support (fully) the distro branches of VirtualBox".
>>
>> Would you please help to solve this problem.
> sorry i am a vmware-user since years and had virtualbox only
> for some months on my notebook - but since we are using vmware
> ESX in our company for the whole production-environment i
> have no use for other virtualization-software and can not help
> you here
>
> maybe i can partially help:
> my expierience with virtualbox migrationto another host was that
> winxp did not start some times ago because the default-hardware
> of the vm has changed for whatever reason and after figure out
> the exactly settings from before it was solved
>
> primary a windows problem but on the other hand a reason more
> that i do not like vbox - configurations are seperated from
> virtual machines - with vmware you have the folder with your
> guest and it contains ALL including config (.vmx) and bios-settings
> (.nvram) and it does not upgrade/change virtual-hardware in any
> way without user-confirmation
>
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