XP in VirtualBox in Feisty

[Larry Hartman]

On Wednesday 06 June 2007 02:27:23 pm Seakat wrote:
> Larry Hartman wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 June 2007 09:34:11 am Seakat wrote:
> >> I'm using VirtualBox in Ubuntu Feisty to run Win XP with Service Pack 2,
> >> and I'm reasonably satisfied with it.
> >>
> >> In the standard way, I have configured VirtualBox to recognise real
> >> partitions using the NAT protocol (as well as a couple of USB drives).
> >> Windows then recognises these partitions accessed through NAT as local
> >> drives (even one in ext format!), and it will read from and write to
> >> them for a while. However, when I do intensive work with reading,
> >> writing, or copying, after a few seconds to a few minutes, Windows
> >> inevitably crashes, and I get a Microsoft blue window, which you can see
> >> at http://assoc.orange.fr/acro/VirtualBox/Win_XP.jpg.
> >>
> >> It's in French, because my Win XP is a French version, while my
> >> VirtualBox and Linux Ubuntu are in en_US.
> >>
> >> Has anyone else had this problem, or know how to get around it (apart
> >> from copying dossiers via a USB drive)? I've configured VirtualBox with
> >> the default base memory size 196 MB, video memory size 8 MB and Hard
> >> disks: Primary master XP.vdi (/home/ian/.VirtualBox/VDI of 9.77 GB)
> >
> > I followed these instructions for XP Pro Svcpak 2 on Feisty.  These
> > instructions allowed me to setup a shared folder.  No blue screen
> > crashes...
> >
> > http://reachbeyondgrasp.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-install-virtualbox-in
> >-ubuntu.html
> >
> >
> > Larry
>
> Thank you very much Larry for trying out my setup. Intermittent problems
> are always hard.
> Thanks too for pointing me to the blogspot link above. Now, I shall be
> keeping an eye on it.
> Cheers

I used this for about three weeks or so...the only issue I had was I could 
copy/paste to the shared folder as setup in the blog above, but I could not 
do a save as to the shared folder.  Annoying but not a show-stopper.

Larry