Note that at least in VirtualBox, the Windows XP VM is pretty fragile until the guest additions are installed and all the patches are in place. It will crash often, particularly when saving snapshots luckily it will save them before crashing. These problems seem to go away once everything is patched and as up to date as possible. The latest version you can install is This took a long time, considering itwas only a 30Gb disk.
Someone will probably tell me that there arequicker ways of doing this, but it worked, and I hope I don't have todo it again. Windows started toboot, but would hang on the splash screen. If you're trying this andWindows now boots in your VM, be very glad. Booting into safe mode showed that the hang occurred after loading'mup.
It seems lots of people have had this problem, and mup. This is notsurprising if you think about it. Anyway, like I said, lots of peoplehave had this problem, and there are lots of suggested ways of fixingit, like booting with the Windows Recovery Console and adjusting whichdrivers are loaded, using the 'repair' version of the registry and soforth.
I tried most of them, and none worked. However, there was onesuggestion that seemed worth following through, and it was a variantof this that I finally got working. This registryhive contains all the information about your hardware that Windowsneeds to boot, so if you can get Windows booting in a VM then you canuse the corresponding SYSTEM registry hive to boot the recoveredinstallation.
At least that's the theory; in practice it needs a bitof hackery to make it work. You cannot access this filewhen the system is running. If you're doing thisyourself don't change the hive on your original VMyet. The system now booted into Windows. Well, almost — it bootedup, but then displayed an LSASS message about being unable to updatethe password and rebooted.
This cycle repeats ad infinitum, even inSafe Mode. So far not so good. In theory, you should be able toupdate all three registry hives together, but then all your useraccounts get replaced, and I didn't fancy trying to get everything setup right again.
Class key values are hidden from normalregistry accesses, but Petter Nordahl-Hagen's registry editor can showthem to you. I notedthese down for later. The text should appear in a few places — one forthe subkey of ControlSet, one for the subkey of ControlSet, andso forth. A few bytes after one of the occurrences you should see asequence of 16 bytes that looks similar to the codes you wrote down:ASCII values for hex digits separated by spaces.
Do the same for the Data, JD and Skew1 values. Near theData values you should also see the same hex digit sequence withoutthe separating null bytes. Replace that too. Now look at the values inthe file near to where the registry key names occur to see if thereare any other occurrences of the original hex digit sequences andreplace these with the new values as well.
Now for the moment of truth: boot the VM. If you've patched all thevalues correctly then it will boot into Windows. In this case, try booting into the 'LastKnown Good Configuration'. This might work if you missed one of theoccurrences of the original values.
If it still doesn't work, load thehive back into your hex editor and have another go. You'll need to re-activate WindowsXP due to the huge change in hardware, but this should be relativelypainless — if you enable a network adapter in the VMconfiguration then Windows can access the internet through your host'sconnection seamlessly. Once that's done you can proceed with installthe VirtualBox guest additions to make it easier to work with the VM— mouse pointer integration, sensible screen resolutions, sharedfolders and so forth.
Was it quicker than installing everything from scratch? Possibly: Ihad a lot of software installed. It was certainly a lot moretouch-and-go, and it was a bit scary patching the registry hive in ahex editor. But please use details. Boristhemoggy wrote: Drag and drop: a big red circle with a line through tells me I am not allowed to drag and drop and sure enough, if I select the file in windows 10, drag it to the windows 7 window and try to drop it into a folder, it doesn't let me.
Re: How to install software into a virtual machine by Boristhemoggy » Sun Feb 12, pm "State your end goal and we'll guide you. If there are other options I don't know about them, but I probably don't need them.
What I do need is to run a program, it really is that simple. If it's not to you then perhaps your knowledge transcends my humble request and you're better off helping those who know what they are talking about.
But then would they need help Anyway I appreciate your time, I hope someone else can assist me. Re: How to install software into a virtual machine by socratis » Sun Feb 12, pm socratis wrote: Do you have the installer? Re: How to install software into a virtual machine by Boristhemoggy » Sun Feb 12, pm OK lets call it a day cos you are bordering on insulting now in your quest to prove your knowledge. I want to run a program If you can't help me run a program, fair enough.
Thanks for your time offered. Re: How to install software into a virtual machine by socratis » Sun Feb 12, pm I honestly fail to see the insulting part.
Maybe your sensitivity is a tad too high I don't have to prove anything to you, I didn't try to prove anything. I was simply asking questions about the implementation details, which you refused to answer again and again. You kept repeating again and again the point that I specifically was asking clarification about.
You're right, I'm out of here. I'll let the other users try to decipher your problem.
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