[ale] Bluescreen on Windows Client thru VirtualBox

[James Sumners]

Well, that is Windows.

2008/12/17 Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>:
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:12 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> It sounds like you moved from i386 to x86_64. Since VirtualBox has to
>> supply Windows with the drivers it needs, there could be a driver you
>> are using that doesn't work well in x86_64 form. But without specific
>> error messages that is just a guess.
>>
>> 2008/12/17 Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I've recently upgraded from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 (x86_64) doing a fresh
>> > install.  I reinstalled VirtualBox and now when I run my Windows client
>> > I
>> > get a blue screen.  I'm ok with that, but I'm confused as to how it
>> > happened.  My Windows XP Pro.vdi file is in a separate partition and
>> > that
>> > data wasn't touched during the install of Fedora 10 (to my knowledge).
>> >
>> > The part that really burns me is I made a couple snapshots so I wouldn't
>> > have to do a complete install from scratch, but it was still in my /home
>> > directory.  So; now that things have gone wrong, I'll have to do those
>> > snapshots again.  Thanks for any clarrification.
>> >
>> > ---
>> > Marc F.


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