VirtualBox on Aspire One AO751h requires BIOS update

Discussion in 'Acer Aspire One' started by tedpoe, Mar 16, 2010.

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    It turns out that this was a BIOS issue. The XP guest booted properly in VirtualBox 3.1.4 under either Vista or Ubuntu on a different laptop, but it froze on my Acer Aspire One AO751h (Atom Z520 processor that supports VT-x) under both Vista and Xubuntu. It would boot under 'Safe Mode with Networking,' which gave me hope.

    After hacking around a number of different possible causes, I turned to the BIOS. I updated the BIOS to version 3211 from 3204, and the XP guest now boots successfully.

    Hope this might help someone else.
     
    tedpoe, Mar 16, 2010
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