Use the corresponding SYSTEM registry hive to boot the recovered Needs to boot, so if you can get Windows booting in a VM then you can Hive contains all the information about your hardware that Windows The suggestion that I finally got working was to install Windows onĪ new VM and swipe the SYSTEM registry hive from there. Suggestion that seemed worth following through, and it was a variant It, like booting with the Windows Recovery Console and adjusting whichĭrivers are loaded, using the "repair" version of the registry and soįorth. Have had this problem, and there are lots of suggested ways of fixing VirtualBox emulated hardware in some drastic fashion. Is not the problem - the problem is that the hardware driversĬonfigured for the existing Windows installation don't match the It seems lots of people have had this problem, and mup.sys
Windows now boots in your VM, be very glad.īooting into safe mode showed that the hang occurred after loading Windows started toīoot, but would hang on the splash screen.
Unmapped the System Rescue CD and rebooted the VM. Once the clone was complete, I disconnected the USB drive and Quicker ways of doing this, but it worked, and I hope I don't have toĭo it again. Someone will probably tell me that there are Using VirtualBox's USB support and cloned the physical disk onto the Once the VM was up and running, I connected the USB drive to the VM Rescue CD that I use for partitioning and disk backups. Machine with a virtual disk the same size as the physical disk. I started VirtualBox and created a new virtual Indicate that the partition was in working order and the data Handy laptop disk caddy lying around in my office which enables you toĬonvert a laptop hard disk into an external USB drive, so I took theĭisk out of the laptop and put it in that. The first thing to do is clone the disk into VirtualBox. Is foolish enough to try this in the future. So, I thought I'd document what I did for the benefits of anyone who Since it seems that several other people have tried to import anĮxisting Windows XP installation into VirtualBox and had problems doing Having to install everything from scratch, and I've become quite a big Into Windows (no boot device, apparently). Of its own accord whilst compiling some code and now no longer boots it still runs the POST checks OK - but it won't rebooted Not a complete "nothing happens when I turn it on" kind of death On Monday morning one of the laptops I use for developing softwareĭied. Importing an Existing Windows XP Installation into VirtualBox Wednesday, 03 June 2009
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