Failed attempt to virtually install Win7 inside Kubuntu 10.04 @ my Asus Eee PC 1001HA.

[Alan Pope]

On 9 November 2010 14:27, Bas Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Today, I have tried to virtually install Kubuntu 10.04 inside a Kubuntu
> 10.04 environment - via "Virtual Box", which I quickly installed without
> problems from the regular repository. The CD with the WIN7 software that has
> been delivered with my netbook, is a so-called "recovery" CD. The OS files
> VirtualBox needs to create the guest Win7 OS, are not accessible -
> apparently because of some software which makes them inaccessible.
>

You are not alone with this issue, there's a thread on the VBox forums
about it too:-

http://forum.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=25116

However the issue is (I believe) because you have a Win7 _recovery_
DVD not an _install_ DVD. Recovery CDs/DVDs/images are designed (read:
restricted) to be used on a specific hardware device, and not on a
different computer. So you can't take a Win7 recovery CD that came
with an Asus PC and use it on a Dell.

Whilst you may well be using VirtualBox on the original computer which
came with the Win7 media and license, it's not the same computer from
the OS (Win7) point of view. VirtualBox creates a (for want of a
better word) "Virtual" computer which has virtual devices. The
hardware presented to the OS inside VBox is _not_ the same as the
underlying host hardware.

As a result you won't be able to do a standard installation of Windows
7 inside VirtualBox from a recovery CD.

There may well be workarounds for this to enable you to do the
install, but I would advice you look elsewhere. Discussion of bodging
windows installs is distinctly offtopic for this Ubuntu support list.

Al.