I am using OSX-Yosemite
I've downloaded winxp-ie8 but when I try and use it I get
FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted! for Virtual Box for Winxp-ie8
I tried changing my settings as suggested in other answers to this problem but it hasn't helped.
Currently my settings are:
and
I found this answer to this.
btw surprised at the downvotes and close votes - this seems like a fairly reasonable question with no existing answers.
I've now found the answer to this and it can help many other folks so here it is:
A key part to getting it to work is the Hard Drive selection.
You will see a pop-up about Hard Drive with three options:
Do not add a virtual hard drive
Create a virtual hard drive now
Use an existing virtual hard drive file
I had been assuming I could just choose the middle option, create it now. I also tried the first option but that seemed to imply no OS at all.
So in fact it is the 3rd option -
Use an existing virtual hard drive file
and you use it to select an image that you have downloaded and unzipped, e.g. a .vmdk file
and then you have:
The next challenge is to figure out the network piece!
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I am writing a program for Microsoft refurbishers, and I would like to include a feature for creating a system recovery partition once all the necessary drivers are installed. The problem that I am running into is that it won't let me create the .wim file while the disk is mounted. When I try it gives me the error "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process". I have seen guides that say to boot to a windows installer, but that seems inefficient. Is it possible to create a backup of a running machine without booting to another drive? Any help is appreciated.
This can be done by creating a shadow copy of the drive. A free project using this approach was presented by the german c't magazine as a command script.
The project can be found and the scripts downloaded here:
c't WIMage.
Unfortunately this page is in german, but the script files may show you how it works.
I've found some remnant documents on one of my hard drives that were somehow encrypted (appearing green in Windows 7 Ultimate x64).
I've attempted to uncheck Encryption in their properties, but I get access denied. I've figured this to be because the files were from a previous format/iteration of my desktop setup, and must have somehow inadvertently gotten encrypted. (I now believe it had something to do with transferring them at one point onto a Mac machine/drive, and then back, not realizing that they were encrypted until post-format).
I originally posted in this question that I thought I had a VMware image from the same time period as the files, and that perhaps it'd be possible to transfer the key from that image to my current machine, but that image is not the right one! :/ I don't have an image that goes back further.
I've tried copying the files to a FAT32 USB drive (as it would strip the encryption), but Windows 7 denies that (understandably). And as expected, trying to drag/copy the files from my current machine onto the VMware running machine also gets denied, as VMware is running within Win7's domain and rules.
Any ideas? What about booting my current machine off of a linux live USB stick, and then attempting to copy the NTFS encrypted files onto a FAT32 partition (thus removing the encryption) -- Would that work, seeing as how Windows wouldn't be "awake" to prohibit copying?
I found a zip archive where these files originated from. Whenever I extracted them, however, they'd appear green. Sure enough, there's also a MACOSX folder in the zip file (no idea why Windows decides to encrypt anything that's coming from a Mac).
I was able to copy the zip file onto the old VMware image of mine and extract the zip file there. It still came up as encrypted, but right clicking the folder, clicking properties, and unchecking Encryption fully decrypted the folder and files!
I'd assume that even though this VMware image's machine name was different from the user record within the file's encryption information, it likely was actually the same, originating machine and subsequent encryption certificates.
Anyway, I was able to copy the decrypted files back, and now the problem's solved!
I have tried in vain to install JDK on a flash drive. I have seen many threads on how to do this, but, I do not see one which addresses my issue. I have JDK on my PC already. No matter if I Run from the website or save to the desktop or flash drive itself, when I double click the Java icon to install, I do not have an opportunity to select any installation preferences. It just runs the configuration then tells me the files already exist. Even when I save to the flash and click the icon within my flash folder, it still tries to install on the PC.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
There's a hacky way to do this that I don't recommend, but apart from copying the files directly to flash drive, this is the only solution I can think of. The Java installer is likely detecting your registry key for the one you already have installed. I don't recommend doing this unless you know what you're doing, but deleting the folders in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit
May have it skip the check and just install it. I recommend you write down what you modified in the registry and make sure that you can re-create it before doing this. If this works as I think it will, the Java installer should not detect the other version of Java on your computer, and you should be able to proceed with installation. I still recommend just copying the appropriate directories to your flash drive instead though, Chris B has the right idea.
Note: This is my first answer. I hope I was able to help you! If not, let me know in the comments so I can do my best to get you to the optimal solution you are looking for! :)
Is there any way, any chance at all to access entire filesystem in SL app with elevated trust?
That will work both in Windows and Mac?
Through AutomationFactory,PInvoke or unmanaged code?
I need an app that could read local drives, folders and files.
UDP: Ok, seems it's possible to read folders and files using classes of System.IO from mscorlib. Although you still can't get information about local mounted drives. There is no DriveInfo in Silverlight's mscorlib :(
Ok I have an idea about this.
It is straightforward enough with Windows, to get the list of the local drives you can use AutomationFactory. There is plenty amount of examples if you google it. Search for something called SilverlightFileExplorer.
Now on a Mac you can use Directory.EnumerateDirectories("/") and then it gets all the folders in the root. Including Volumes folder which contains shortcuts to the local drives. I'm not an expert of Berkeley System Distribution (BSD) Unix filesystems, so I can't really promise that it would work on any Mac, but this approach works on mine.
I'm still playing around with that. When I get working prototype I'll probably share it through github or something.
I'd like to get a copy of the following open source code:
http://www.osxcrypt.org/release/OSXCrypt-6.2A-source.zip
The above site is gone, couldn't find any archives googling. So I come here to ask your help. I need some source code to do a virtual disk kernel extension on Mac, so Mac OS X can boot from a virtual disk file, as what we have done for Windows via our VBoot (http://www.vmlite.com/index.php/products/vboot) software.
If you do have a copy and can share with me, that would be great!
Or if you have other ideas on how to develop a virtual disk driver on Mac, that would be useful too. We have done that for Windows/Linux.
Thanks,
Executable download: http://www.apponic.com/free-downloads-327/osxcrypt-6.2a/
As for the source, a Google search constrained to the past year reveals nothing at all. The last post here isn't promising:
In 2008 some fellows took the
Truecrypt source code and wrote their
own Mac version (this was before there
was a Mac version of Truecrypt). It
was called OSXCrypt. It had potential
because it was a kernel extension, not
a user-space implementation like
Truecrypt is. They asked for and took
donations, but once Truecrypt was
released for Mac, these guys took the
money and ran. No one to my knowledge
has heard from them since. Pity.
Google search 'osxcrypt' gives numerous sites from which the binary can be downloaded. However, they all seem to lead to dead-ends - the osxcrypt.org domain is defunct (which is probably indicative of problems with the software; I'd certainly not recommend using it at the moment). Using the WayBack Machine at http://web.archive.org suggests that the website was always rather minimal - there's no evidence of the source being available there for the 2 one-page entries that are available. There were plans to put the material onto SourceForge; the project exists but there are no files available there.
There's a contact email address available via whois osxcrypt.org - maybe you should try that.
After searching in the waybackmachine it was authored by Orlando Bassotto and Matteo Flora.
Maybe someone can ping them.