Virtualbox and Windows 7 clones - registration

I have created a virtual machine using virtualbox. I purchased a version of Windows 7 to support this virtual machine since I do experimentation with the "base" installation of a prodcut I support. I always go backto my original version (clone) of my installation. However, everytime I try create my clone OR returnto my original clone, have to reregister my Windows installation. It was not really a problem until recently which is when I exceeded the reregisteration of the product.
Does anyone have a solution or know how I can fix this problem.
My goal is to have a single version of the product running and I only use it to ensure I install things correctly then I use the new version and delete the redundant versions.

vbim0nk wrote:
As was stated after you installed virtualbox-modules, you need to load the modules manually. Also make sure your username is part of the vboxusers group.
sudo modprobe vboxdrv
sudo modprobe vboxnetflt
sudo gpasswd -a USERNAME vboxusers
Then log out and back in. You should also probably add those modules to the modules section of your rc.conf, or you will have to use modprobe manually every time you reboot. Also check out the wiki page for VirtualBox, it is very informative.
thanks .
when i share a folder where can i find it?

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Hi
I install virtual box and i need windows 7 in my arch.
but it have error and i can't install windows 7 or xp
see this:
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Moderator edit: The included image is too big. See post below. -- bernarcher
Last edited by bernarcher (2011-12-18 14:30:54)

vbim0nk wrote:
As was stated after you installed virtualbox-modules, you need to load the modules manually. Also make sure your username is part of the vboxusers group.
sudo modprobe vboxdrv
sudo modprobe vboxnetflt
sudo gpasswd -a USERNAME vboxusers
Then log out and back in. You should also probably add those modules to the modules section of your rc.conf, or you will have to use modprobe manually every time you reboot. Also check out the wiki page for VirtualBox, it is very informative.
thanks .
when i share a folder where can i find it?

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Wow. Thanks for the extremely quick responses. Just for a few points of clarification.. I'm a complete newb at backing up strategies.
Steve, you would recommend to not backup files from my Mac OSX and files from Windows (also on my Mac) on the same drive, correct?
I appreciate the strategy of using it only as a backup, that makes quite a bit of sense. However, if I want to only backup my OSX files, and also store (solely as backup copies) say, a number of computer models (Rhino, Revit, etc.) that were created in Windows programs (not needing to store the entire Windows disk), would it not make sense to store these on the same drive in a different partition, creating the need for two different partition formats? And if I were to do this, maybe I should use NTFS instead of FAT32 (and reformat to GUID since that seems to be a standard for Apple and Windows 7 recognizes it..?) to keep them completely separate since the computer model files cannot be opened unless running the Windows programs.
How do you use your drive with HFS+ and NTFS if not for backups? I will not need to access the HFS+ backup files in Windows, nor need to access files from an NTFS partition in OSX, so that seems to simplify things in that, at least at the moment, I will not need any Paragon software.
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Third, are you using CarbonCopyClone in place of Time Machine or in addition to it? If in addition would it create the bit-wise clone on the same HFS+ partition as TM is backing up to? Or a separate drive? I'd like to only have one external that I am backing up to for simplicity's sake. I've never used TM before, so this is all new to me. Also, I suppose I have been missing the distinction between storing copies of files, and making a complete backup of a disk image... just now realizing the difference. Thanks so much.

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All ok but a pain to have to keep logging off and on between OS X & Windows
I understand that there is a way to dual boot - I am running Snow Leopard on a macbook pro lap top OS x 10.6.7
Can anyone help please
Ian

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