![]() ![]() VirtualBox will then present this file as a CD or DVD-ROM drive to the virtual machine, much like it does with virtual hard disk images.For this case, the wizard's drop-down list contains a list of installation media that were previously used with VirtualBox.If your medium is not in the list (especially if you are using VirtualBox for the first time), select the small folder icon next to the drop-down list to bring up a standard file dialog, with which you can pick the image file on your host disks'. With VirtualBox however, you can skip this step and mount the ISO file directly. Download: virtualbox extension pack for windows (free) scroll down, select all supported platforms to download, then double click to install.Here's how, from the VM manual:'If you have downloaded installation media from the Internet in the form of an ISO image file (most probably in the case of a Linux distribution), you would normally burn this file to an empty CD or DVD and proceed as just described. Nice find, but this ISO file does not load in VirtualBox, saying 'FATAL: No bootable medium found System halted.'. This worked! (Newer versions of Virtual Box allow you to boot from an ISO stored anywhere, without the need for a physical disk). ![]() My solution was to copy the ISO of the guest operating system (XP) to my Mac desktop, and then in the VM 'First Run Wizard', choose that instead of the CD/DVD that I'd burned. ![]()
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