[ale] Bluescreen on Windows Client thru VirtualBox

[Marc Ferguson]

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.
> >
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I'll supply the specific error message when I get home.  I wrote it wrong,
but I've been in x86_64 on both versions of Fedora.  Roughly the bluescreen
error was the one that states, "If you're seeing this for the first time.
Reboot and everything should be OK."
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