I have a bootable USB for Windows 7 but can't persuade virtualbox to boot from it.
I also thought I might be able to directly use a .iso from the hard disk but can't figure that out either.
Help please
installing windows on virtualbox
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I think this is fool-proof but could you just try it for me please? • There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don’t
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#2 Re: installing windows on virtualbox
click Settings,
click Storage,
under the Storage Tree click the Empty dvd icon,
click on down arrow of dvd icon under Attributes on right side,
click Choose Virtual Optical Disk File...,
navigate to win7 install iso file and select it,
start vm and it should boot from iso
click Storage,
under the Storage Tree click the Empty dvd icon,
click on down arrow of dvd icon under Attributes on right side,
click Choose Virtual Optical Disk File...,
navigate to win7 install iso file and select it,
start vm and it should boot from iso
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#3 Re: installing windows on virtualbox
thanks - getting somewhere now I think
PS : also needed "vboxmanage modifyvm win7 --firmware efi" (where win7 was the name I gave to the VM)
PS : also needed "vboxmanage modifyvm win7 --firmware efi" (where win7 was the name I gave to the VM)
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#4 Re: installing windows on virtualbox
So far so good. Was about to install Boinc and suddenly thought about IP address / port numbers etc.
CMD> IPCONFIG reports it as having IP address 10.0.2.15. It can ping out but I can't ping the VM itself
Should I change this to an available 192.168 address so that I can connect to it from btsk (boinctasks) etc?
CMD> IPCONFIG reports it as having IP address 10.0.2.15. It can ping out but I can't ping the VM itself
Should I change this to an available 192.168 address so that I can connect to it from btsk (boinctasks) etc?
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#5 Re: installing windows on virtualbox
Shut down the VM, under the Settings, click Network and change it from NAT to Bridged Adapter. It will then grab IP from DHCP but you can change to specific IP if you want
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perfect thanks
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#7 Re: installing windows on virtualbox
+disable Windows firewall
+edit cfg files in an invisible directory
+edit cfg files in an invisible directory
I think this is fool-proof but could you just try it for me please? • There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don’t