VirtualBox and iTunes

[stan]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:44:44AM -0400, J wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:36, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> > I have a iPhone, and in order to load muusic on it, I need to run iTunes. I
> > do not have any Windows (or for that matter Mac) computers. I figured I
> > could get this done using VirtualBox, and an XP image, but every time I
> > strat iTunes in a VirtualBox XP instance. I get a Windows "program crash"
> > message.
> >
> > Has anyone made this work?
> 
> I haven't run iTunes inside a windows VM, but for testing purposes I
> keep XP and Win7 images and run those from time to time.
> 
> The question is, what are you running, and what VirtualBox?  And when
> do you get the crash message... does it kill the VM, or just iTunes?
> 
> FWIW, I don't use the OSE version, I use the VBox packages pulled
> directly from Sun.
> 
64 bit Ububtu 10.04, and I have tried the latest non ose release, and
beta version of VirtualBox. 

iTunes starts up, presnets it's default screen, and I get a Windows pop uu
saying something like"iTunes has encountered an error an must end. Do you
wnat to send a report to Microsoft?".

What other information can I provide?


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