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Converted VM in an infinite reboot loop

Aloha,

I inherited several Windows 7 VM's that are wasting a huge amount of disk space. My thought
was to use Converter to trim some fat. The conversion worked but the VM won't boot properly.
I'm in an infinite loop of Starting Windows/seeing a BSOD for a very-pico second/Windows Error
Recovery. All options in Windows Error Recovery send me back into the loop.

Any suggestions on where to start would be greatly appreciated.

Bill

dfke

Hi,

It sounds like a driver issue. Most of the time it's missing some SCSI drivers.

Read up here it might help you out.

Cheers

Sam Simon Nasser

as mentioned by dfke, its properly a driver issue https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1892819-win7-vm-reboot-loop

More than likely you got an image built for a desktop. In that image is more than likely the drivers for the drive controller which are not directly compatible with Virtualbox. The image file will need the drive controller(s) set to generic and any other hardware specific drivers removed. It will also need to be sysprepped properly before being recaptured.

With the sounds of your IT department it would be faster to build one from scratch. See if you can get the .iso file and the key and just purpose build the VM. A fresh build should only take about a day with updates.