I have found a few resources about this issue but am still looking for an expert's advice. The key of the problem seems to lie in an inaccurate BCD configuration data. Looks like a few people had the same problem, as you can read here:
In these last weeks I further investigated the issue and came to the conclusion that the problem IS NOT with VBox, the problem is that the software I used to create the VHD (VMware Converter Standalone) cannot properly configure the boot partition on the Virtual Disk. I'm actually planning to get rid of Win8 and downgrade to Win7 (I do have a physical media for that matter) but, being a web developer, I first wanted to create a virtual HD of my current Win8 installation to use in the future for testing purposes. My notebook came with an OEM license and thus I do not have any installation media. Yes, the boot partition is an EFI partition, Windows 8 uses that feature.Īnd you got it, I'm trying to have a second Windows installation on VBox (and I'm missing the installation media, that's why I'm trying to virtualize my host). Thanks for your reply and sorry if I took quite a long time to answer, these are troubled times for me. Attachments Screenshot from Control Panel - Disk Partitions Management Disk Management Screenshot.gif (92.17 KiB) Viewed 2965 times VBox-VMware.log VBox log with VMware Converter VMDK (87.59 KiB) Downloaded 13 times VBox-Macrium.log VBox log with Macrium Reflect VHD (87.62 KiB) Downloaded 7 times MyotisVesperi Posts: 3 Joined: 18. I'm attaching both the virtual machines logs and a screenshot of my HD's partitions, hopefully somebody might find that useful to understand what's gone wrong. When imaging my HD I only imaged the partitions which were strictly necessary for Windows, I didn't include my Data partition or the Hewlett Packard Recovery Partition. I'm wondering if I did something wrong when creating the VHD/VMDK because it looks like the virtual hard disks are not bootable. I tried several combinations of settings (IO/APIC on and off, IDE and SATA controller) and even tried to turn on the EFI feature (in this case Virtualbox crashes). I used both Macrium Reflect and VMware vCenter Converter to image my OS and created two virtual HDs, a VHD and a VMDK, but when I create a new VM and try mounting the virtual hard disks the VM fails to boot.Īll I have is a black screen and a 'FATAL: no bootable medium found' message. I use Virtualbox both in Windows and Ubuntu hosts but to keep it simple I'm having problems with Virtualbox running on a Win8 hosts (the same host I'm trying to image). I'm planning to use this VHD to create a virtual machine with Virtualbox. I am trying to create a VHD (or a similar format image) from a Win8 64bit which came pre-installed on my new notebook (it's an OEM license so I don't have the OS installation discs).
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