[Tfug] Virtualization problem

[Judd Pickell]

What is the version of XP that you are installing? Original release XP CD?
XP SP 1? XP SP 2? XP SP 3? I know that I have installed professional with SP
2 without issue. I believe I even had the SP 1 running under virtualbox,
until I updated it. Both were to VirtualBox setups on Linux (Ubuntu 7.10 and
8.04), and I have a pre-built image of XP Professional running inside my
laptop's Ubuntu 8.10. So I am guessing you maybe using a very old XP media
perhaps?

Sincerely,
Judd Pickell

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Robert Hunter <hunter at tfug.org> wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:40:09PM +0800, Matthew Patenaude wrote:
> > Howdy out there!
> >
> > It seems as if no matter what virtualization scheme I try, I always end
> up
> > with the CD booting and then the screen going black and then a blue
> screen
> > coming up with a message that says session3_initialization_failed.
> >
> > I am trying to run XP virtualized on Ubuntu 8.10 and am having no success
> at
> > all. I have tried with Virtual Box, and with KVM/Virt-manager, both have
> the
> > same result. Any ideas?
>
> Some quick googling indicates that the "session3_yada_yada" error is
> specific to the XP installer.  How confident are you that the CD or
> CD-drive are not the cause of your problem?  If the error is occurring
> before anything is written to disk, you could safely* test booting
> directly from the CD.
>
> Other things you could try:
>
> 1. Verify the checksum of the ISO image.
> 2. Look for kernel messages that indicate I/O errors with the CD drive.
> 3. Install from a known good ISO image (assuming you can obtain one).
>
> *You may want to do a backup beforehand, just to be safe. ;-)
>
> - --
> RH
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