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Michael Durrant
Michael Durrant

Reputation: 96594

FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted! for Virtual Box for Winxp-ie8

I am using OSX-Yosemite

I've downloaded winxp-ie8 but when I try and use it I get

FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted! for Virtual Box for Winxp-ie8

I tried changing my settings as suggested in other answers to this problem but it hasn't helped.

Currently my settings are:

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and

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Upvotes: 2

Views: 9320

Answers (1)

Michael Durrant
Michael Durrant

Reputation: 96594

I found this answer to this. btw surprised at the downvotes and close votes - this seems like a fairly reasonable question with no existing answers.

I've now found the answer to this and it can help many other folks so here it is:

A key part to getting it to work is the Hard Drive selection.

You will see a pop-up about Hard Drive with three options:

  • Do not add a virtual hard drive
  • Create a virtual hard drive now
  • Use an existing virtual hard drive file

I had been assuming I could just choose the middle option, create it now. I also tried the first option but that seemed to imply no OS at all.

So in fact it is the 3rd option -

Use an existing virtual hard drive file

and you use it to select an image that you have downloaded and unzipped, e.g. a .vmdk file

and then you have:

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The next challenge is to figure out the network piece!

Upvotes: 1

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