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Puppybasher

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Registered: 2009-11-30

Posts: 5

VirtualBox black screen And vmware problem

Hey

I thought I'd install VirtualBox and boot my my vmware WinXP machine.

When I boot it VirtualBox only gives me a black screen. If I turn off the power and reboot it (so I dont shut down "safely") I get this screen from windows that it's whining I did that (so this i can see). The second I press "boot normaly" the screen seems to freeze, tho the machine is actualy running.

Now my second problem is that VirtualBox has f***ed up my vm's hdd (at least I think it did). Now every time I try to boot it in Vmware I get:
"Unable to change virtual machine power state: Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to". This happened after I tried to boot it in VirtualBox.

I kinda seriously need that vm work

Puppybasher

Member

Registered: 2009-11-30

Posts: 5

Re: VirtualBox black screen And vmware problem

Okay I managed to boot my machine in vmware again. Had to set:
mks.enable3d = "FALSE"

no idea why though