Important Things 1999

Error loading operating system, VirutalBox, Why?!

The reason is very simple,

If vmdk use a SCSI disk interface, it will make VirtualBox don’t know how to boot, because it want a IDE interface in Windows.

So, we change SCSI disk to IDE disk, it should work.

I chose the slowest and the simplest way, VMware: IDE–>Ghost–>Del SCSI, VirtualBox: New OS

1. create another disk which has a IDE interface, having the same size as SCSI disk.

2. using a boot ISO image which also can run ghost.

3. Ghost, disk to disk

4. Delete SCSI disk in VMware’s settings.

5. Reboot Windows in VMware, and shutdown, to test it can work.

6. Add a new Virtual Machine in VirtualBox using the IDE vmdk cloned by Ghost.

7. Boot Windows in VirtualBox, now the Windows is coming.

:)

To test Windows’ vmdk can be immigrated to VirtualBox took me about 5 hours.

The solution isn’t perfect ,but it works.

When using clone of vmdk from VMware, VirtualBox is defeated by VMware.

“Error loading operating system” , the error for Microsoft Windows OS hasn’t been solved  for a long time.

I have tested that VirtualBox can use clone of vmdk in Unbuntu 10.10.

But, in Windows 7, when using clone of VMware, it always shows “Error loading operating system” whatever you have tried.

And, there is no solution in Internet.

Why ?!

It shouldn’t be the reason to discard VirtualBox, when you want to convert all of your VMs to VBs.

WordPress V2.7 released today.

But my upgrade failed. After upgraded from V2.6.5 to V2.7, the page cann’t be opened, it shows “Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_remote_request()”.
So, return V2.6.5.
The newest is NOT the best!

I think this could be plugins or themes problem.

The result may be different, if deactivate all plugins and use default theme before upgrade.

Refer: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/224102