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01-21-2009
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| | physical pc reboots when installing xp on virtual machine I have a Dell laptop that I just installed virtual PC. I'm trying to install Windows XP SP2 on the virtual machine. After it loads the drivers and windows starts my laptop reboots. So can't install XP. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. |
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01-21-2009
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| | Re: physical pc reboots when installing xp on virtual machine "Simmer" <Simmer@xxxxxx> wrote in message news  B44F00A-D0FA-4446-9C8C-983D71A61987@xxxxxxQuote: > I have a Dell laptop that I just installed virtual PC. I'm trying to > install > Windows XP SP2 on the virtual machine. After it loads the drivers and > windows starts my laptop reboots. So can't install XP. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. machine and not, unfortunately, on the host by mistake...? How much RAM did you allocate to the new virtual machine...? -- Mark Rae ASP.NET MVP http://www.markrae.net |
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01-22-2009
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| | Re: physical pc reboots when installing xp on virtual machine Hi Mark, It is definitely installing on the virtual machine. In the Virtual PC 2007 window I see the drivers load fine, but when it gets to "windows starting" the laptop reboots. I used the default settings during the wizard to configure the VM except I only allocated 30Gb for the virtual Hard drive. The RAM I did not change so it is set to 128Mb. I've tried removing and creating another VM and each time when it's installing XP and it gets to "starting windows" ...reboot of the laptop. "Mark Rae [MVP]" wrote: Quote: > "Simmer" <Simmer@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news B44F00A-D0FA-4446-9C8C-983D71A61987@xxxxxx> Quote: > > I have a Dell laptop that I just installed virtual PC. I'm trying to > > install > > Windows XP SP2 on the virtual machine. After it loads the drivers and > > windows starts my laptop reboots. So can't install XP. > > > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > Firstly, are you absolutely sure that you're installing XP in a virtual > machine and not, unfortunately, on the host by mistake...? > > How much RAM did you allocate to the new virtual machine...? > > > -- > Mark Rae > ASP.NET MVP > http://www.markrae.net > > |
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01-22-2009
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| | Re: physical pc reboots when installing xp on virtual machine On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:07:01 -0800, Simmer <Simmer@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >Hi Mark, > >It is definitely installing on the virtual machine. In the Virtual PC 2007 >window I see the drivers load fine, but when it gets to "windows starting" >the laptop reboots. > >I used the default settings during the wizard to configure the VM except I >only allocated 30Gb for the virtual Hard drive. The RAM I did not change so >it is set to 128Mb. > >I've tried removing and creating another VM and each time when it's >installing XP and it gets to "starting windows" ...reboot of the laptop. > works. If it does, then its likely the BIOS implementation of HWV is bad and look for a BIOS update for your MB. -- Cheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/ |
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