XP in VirtualBox in Feisty

[Seakat]

Larry Hartman wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 June 2007 09:34:11 am Seakat wrote:
>  
>> I'm using VirtualBox in Ubuntu Feisty to run Win XP with Service Pack 2,
>> and I'm reasonably satisfied with it.
>>
>> In the standard way, I have configured VirtualBox to recognise real
>> partitions using the NAT protocol (as well as a couple of USB drives).
>> Windows then recognises these partitions accessed through NAT as local
>> drives (even one in ext format!), and it will read from and write to
>> them for a while. However, when I do intensive work with reading,
>> writing, or copying, after a few seconds to a few minutes, Windows
>> inevitably crashes, and I get a Microsoft blue window, which you can see
>> at http://assoc.orange.fr/acro/VirtualBox/Win_XP.jpg.
>>
>> It's in French, because my Win XP is a French version, while my
>> VirtualBox and Linux Ubuntu are in en_US.
>>
>> Has anyone else had this problem, or know how to get around it (apart
>> from copying dossiers via a USB drive)? I've configured VirtualBox with
>> the default base memory size 196 MB, video memory size 8 MB and Hard
>> disks: Primary master XP.vdi (/home/ian/.VirtualBox/VDI of 9.77 GB)
>>     
>
> I followed these instructions for XP Pro Svcpak 2 on Feisty.  These 
> instructions allowed me to setup a shared folder.  No blue screen 
> crashes...
>
> http://reachbeyondgrasp.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-install-virtualbox-in-ubuntu.html 
>
>
> Larry
>
>   
Thank you very much Larry for trying out my setup. Intermittent problems 
are always hard.
Thanks too for pointing me to the blogspot link above. Now, I shall be 
keeping an eye on it.
Cheers