virtualbox no bootable medium found windows xp

I always end up having created a new virtual machine using one of the images (vhd or vmdk) with the error message 'FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted'.

Jun 2021, 19:44Ĭhrisisbd wrote:I have tried creating Windows 7 and 10 images using both Microsoft's disc2vhd.exe and VMware's VMware-converter-en-6.2.0-8466193.exe and I get the same result with both. If I 'Enable EFI' in Virtualbox then when I try starting it then I get dropped into the Grub menu, is there any way of sorting things out from there? chrisisbd Posts: 1 Joined: 22. Oh, an extra bit of information, the 'source' system is EFI BIOS.

Partition table entries are not in disk order.ĭisk /dev/sdb: 476.94 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectorsĭevice Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Thus the Windows images I'm creating don't have the 'bootable' bits I need. I suspect this is because the 'source' system isn't a Windows only machine, it also has xubuntu linux on it and thus there are several partitions with different OSs and boot is managed by grub. I have tried creating Windows 7 and 10 images using both Microsoft's disc2vhd.exe and VMware's VMware-converter-en-6.2.0-8466193.exe and I get the same result with both. I have a Windows XP guest running OK so my Virtualbox is basically OK.

I'm trying to create a virtual Windows 7 or Windows 10 machine to run on my Linux host (xubuntu 21.04) running Virtualbox 6.1.18.

Virtualbox no bootable medium found windows xp