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I assume that if the HAL or drivers were wrong I would get a BSOD instead of the current error about no bootable medium found. The attached Lenovo_13_Disk_Restore shows Image for Windows, 5 partitions to restore, however it shows the system 100MiB being **active**, shouldn't the Windows 120759MiB be *active*? The attached Lenovo_disk shows the disk layout from Computer Management, it shows 4 partitions, 117GB partition being Boot.

System Configuration: SUN MICROSYSTEMS SUN FIRE X4275 SERVERīIOS Configuration: American Megatrends Inc.I did the restore, however when I attempt to boot it said 'FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted.' I used the exact same configuration (in this post) for both 3.1.8 and 3.2.0 – only 3.2.0 doesn’t work.Ĭopyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Obviously there is a bug in the latest release with respect to my OS and HW (stock sun). So I rolled back form VirtualBox 3.2.0 to VirtualBox 3.1.8 and it all worked fine. Loaded the OS about ten time (only takes a few minutes) but it always started ending up in a permanent “black screen” when powering up the VM. I could load it and restart the VM a few times but once I powered it off and powered it on it failed.

#NO BOOTABLE MEDIUM FOUND VIRTUALBOX WINDOWS XP INSTALL#

I was trying to install Windows 2008 R2 on X86 Sun VirtualBox on a fully patched new install of Solaris. Glad to find this post it helped me a bit – proved I wasn’t crazy

Categories Server Virtualization, VirtualBox Tags VirtualBox, Windows Virtualization Post navigation We highly recommend using the latest Windows Server Operating Systems, such as Windows 2022 or Windows 2019 servers. In case, you need to do some testing and development on this older server OS, you can use this guide to install it on a dedicated VirtualBox environment. NOTE: Since Windows 2008 R2 is a pretty outdated server operating system currently, it is not recommended to use in the production environment. You can enable the seamless mode of the virtual machine to work on Windows 2008 R2 VM from the host OS desktop. There you go, you have the working Windows 2008 R2 64-bit Server OS on your X86 host OS and VirtualBox. Restart the virtual machine after the installation to see the changes & improvements. You can mount the built-in guest additions ISO file inside the guest VM from the menu bar. No need to explain every installation step.ĩ) Here is the working Windows server 2008 R2 on VirtualBox below.ġ0) It is essential to install VirtualBox guest additions to get better mouse integration, display settings, folder share and improved network performance.

The installation will go smoothly if all settings are correct. Hardware Virtualization Enable VT-x/AMD-V should be enabled.Ĩ) Now start the Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine in VirtualBox. You can click on System to view the settings. Since I have an ISO file, I’m mounting it by clicking on the Folder arrow button.ħ) Make sure the following options are correct under system setting of the virtual machine. So when you boot the Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine, it will read your host physical DVD drive. If you have an installation DVD, then insert it into the host DVD drive and select the ‘Host Drive- Drive letter’ mentioned below. Set the disk size and location of the disk file on the next screen.Ĥ) Press Finish to complete disk and virtual machine creation.ĥ) Click on the storage option in virtual machine configuration settings.Ħ) Press ‘Empty’ IDE controller as mentioned below to insert the installation DVD or ISO image. Select the Dynamically Expanding storage option. You can increase the RAM and hard disk size if your physical computer has enough resources. Follow the steps to Install Windows Server 2008 R2 on VirtualBox.Ģ) Select Windows 2008 R2 as the guest OS version.ģ) Set memory size to 1024MB, and create a new hard disk with 20GB space.

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Once the result confirms that your PC is 64-bit ready then you can proceed with the installation of Windows Server 2008 R2 on VirtualBox. To make sure your computer processor and motherboard support this feature read this post where you will find relevant tools for AMD and Intel processors.

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Windows 2008 R2 server is available in 64-bit version only, so your computer processor and motherboard should support 64-Bit architecture and VT (Virtualization Technology) to carry out this installation.Įven if you are using the 32-bit version of Operating Systems such as Windows 7, Vista and XP on the host computer, still it’s possible to use 64 Bit operating systems as a guest on VirtualBox.

#NO BOOTABLE MEDIUM FOUND VIRTUALBOX WINDOWS XP HOW TO#

This article shows how to install Windows Server 2008 R2 on VirtualBox.

No bootable medium found virtualbox windows xp