Gregory Nowak <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 07:17:25PM +0200, Lars Bj?rndal wrote: >> I want to clone an old Windows XP virtual machine, SP2, I believe, >> into a new one. Cloning is fine, because I'm blind, and therefore not >> able to fresh install Windows XP on my own. > > You actually could install xp on your own if you wanted to. The first > way is to use a winnt.sif file to script the setup procedure. I've > been able to use a winnt.sif file to start the installation of xp, > walk away, come back when I heard the xp start-up sound playing, and > start installing window-eyes, all by myself. I believe you can find > documentation on winnt.sif in the support folder on your xp cd-rom, but > don't remember for sure, since I can't check my xp cd now.
Actually, i knew that, but it's a lot of work, and it shouldn't be necessary since I already had a working copy. > Another way is to use FAI, > http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai > . I haven't tried this myself, but have heard from another blind > person who says he uses it to install xp regularly. Hmm. Although it is for Debian Linux? >> When I start the newly cloned or imported machine, it starts the first >> time. It then automatically installs a driver for disk access, and >> tells me that it needs to reboot. After it's rebooted, it hangs >> forever. The driver install is maybe due to the UUID change between >> the old and the new machine, I don't know. >> >> What can I do to solve this problem, do you think? > > Are you using the same controller as before? Also keep in mind that xp > doesn't support all SATA controllers out of the box, if you chose to > use the SATA controller. You just might have to install xp from > scratch. The up side of that is that it would give you the chance to > maybe try out one of the 2 above install methods. Hth. I installed SP3 first, and after that cloned the VDI. Then it worked out. Thank you! Lars _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
