{"id":1538,"date":"2009-06-19T13:23:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T12:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1538-fixing-a-virtualbox-windows-xp-blue-screen.html"},"modified":"2009-06-19T13:23:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T12:23:39","slug":"fixing-a-virtualbox-windows-xp-blue-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1538-fixing-a-virtualbox-windows-xp-blue-screen.html","title":{"rendered":"Fixing a VirtualBox Windows XP blue screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great think about virtualisation is that virtualised hardware stays the same, so you don\u2019t get problems when you move to new hardware, right? Unfortunately when I ran up an XP image on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\" target=\"_blank\">VirtualBox<\/a>, newly installed on Vista 64, I got this blue screen, an 0x0000007B stop error:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/virtualbox-bsod.gif\" \/>&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n<p>The problem was that VirtualBox must have changed its default virtual IDE controller since I first set up this VM. Windows hates having the storage controller changed \u2013 though there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/479-changing-the-motherboard-underneath-windows-xp-and-vista.html\" target=\"_blank\">ways to fix it<\/a>. Much easier, though, to change the IDE Controller setting in VirtualBox from PIIX4 to PIIX3:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/vbox-settings.gif\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>This problem would likely not have occurred if I had preserved the .xml file which defines the virtual machine settings. Unfortunately I only preserved the hard drive .vdi file, and used it in a new virtual machine. So VirtualBox is working as designed. Still, an easy fix.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:63c61275-39e3-4107-87a5-c40bb766b503\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/virtualbox\" rel=\"tag\">virtualbox<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/blue+screen\" rel=\"tag\">blue screen<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/7b+stop+error\" rel=\"tag\">7b stop error<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great think about virtualisation is that virtualised hardware stays the same, so you don\u2019t get problems when you move to new hardware, right? Unfortunately when I ran up an XP image on VirtualBox, newly installed on Vista 64, I got this blue screen, an 0x0000007B stop error: &#160;&#160; The problem was that VirtualBox must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1538-fixing-a-virtualbox-windows-xp-blue-screen.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fixing a VirtualBox Windows XP blue screen<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}