How to install XP from CD into VirtualBox?

I just downloaded it. VirtualBox 3.0.12. It doesn't get any newer, my friend. :)

I didn't say that you needed to upgrade...I said that you needed to "reinstall" and choose the "repair" option.

Edit: my bad, I didn't refresh my screen to see you were responding to somebody else.

Ok, the repair worked. I'm installing now, guys. Thanks for the tip.

Poor Hugh....he has had his string of bad luck when it comes to virtualization. I've been living and breathing VM's for years, and almost every version has worked great for me....but this poor guy cannot seem to get any of them working well.

HughShaw said:

Ok, the repair worked. I'm installing now, guys. Thanks for the tip.

Fantastic. Glad that worked for you. Installing from ISO really is the best way. I don't even know if I have ever actually installed from a cd with a virtual machine

Zidane24 said:

Read the post above...it appears his luck has changed

As I was editing my post, just as you were typing it seems.

Have you guys noticed that VBox doesn't integrate the mouse very well like Win XPM? You have to keep clicking right ctrl. Hope it gets better after all the drivers are installed.

HughShaw said:

Have you guys noticed that VBox doesn't integrate the mouse very well like Win XPM? You have to keep clicking right ctrl. Hope it gets better after all the drivers are installed.

Do you mean that you have to hit right-ctrl to get out of the VM? If that is what you mean...that is by design....until you get the virtualbox additions added on. It's the same for Virtual PC, VMWare and Virtualbox.

It's the vmware tools, virtualbox additions and virtual pc add-ons which provide the support for changing resolutions and seamlessly mousing into and out of the VM's.

Where can I find these wonderful "VirtualBox additions"?