Ticket #995 (closed defect: fixed)
XP guest fails to boot
| Reported by: | nashattan | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Component: | other |
| Version: | VirtualBox 1.5.2 | Keywords: | windows xp mup.sys agp440.sys boot fail failure |
| Cc: | Guest type: | other | |
| Host type: | other |
Description
Using qemu and vmplayer, I created a vmdk file (and corresponding vmx) that had a complete windows installation on it. Now I am trying to switch over to virtualbox, but the machine I created using said vmdk file fails to boot. While booting in safe mode, it hung up on agp440.sys. I found this page: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows and went in to the system files and renamed it agp440.sys.backup. Now it hangs on Mup.sys during boot. Just to experiment, I also renamed mup.sys to mup.sys.backup, but then it hung on NDIS.sys. Not sure what is causing this as it ran fine in VMPlayer and Vmware Server.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by omgparticle@…
I had a vmware fusion image file. I did the agp440 rename thing.
It was hanging on Mup so I
Increased the memory available, Underneath the general tab I checked that XP is the type of OS, and on the advanced tab I checked the Enable IO APIC. (I believe that is what made it start to work.)
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by rossy65
I had the mup.sys hang as well. I did a disable mup in the recovery console, and it hung elsewhare pbadrv.sys. Don't really think its mup.sys... just a catch all place for things to hang in windows.
I tried increasing memory and also setting enable IO APIC... this didn't help, although I can't rule out having the incorrect hal (hardware abstraction layer).
Just wanted to report the mup.sys issue... perhaps we can do some Windows XP sniffing of a *.vdi to determine what the correct virtual machine parameters need to be to run it. Thats future stuff.
My image was from a Dell D620 laptop. Also required for this was a fix to boot.ini as there are two partitions on the original disk (DellUtilities[1] and Windows[2]).
If I get to the bottom of my mup.sys issue I will post it. Again setting IO APIC didn't fix the issue.
I can confirm the same problem. I am using a partition install of windows XP fine in VMWare, and amd trying to get it working in VirtualBox. I disabled the agp440 service using the recovery console, and now the VM is hanging on Mup.sys, however I have not yet tried renaming Mup.sys to see the effect.