07-28-2015, 05:20 AM
Thanks Wirezfree - I haven't looked at the links you gave me just yet - to update you...
I made some progress.
The mistake I made when I first installed win8.1 in VirtualBox was to shut the shut the machine down, following installation, and then trying to install the guest additions in the subsequent reboot. It's during the subsequent reboot that I got stuck at the UEFI Interactive Shell screen.
Following this, I reinstalled win8.1 as a VM in UEFI mode but, this time before I shut it down following installation, I installed the guest additions right away. This meant I avoided the UEFI Interactive Shell entirely.
All went very well, following this, until one of the security patches (around 700MB) refused to install. I went through the procedure recommended by a win8.1, specifically for installation of this patch, using windows command line, but to no avail. Subsequent reboots just resulted in the VM freezing. So it seems early days for UEFI for windows in VBox, at least for me. My curiosity was piqued by a UEFI VM, but is now satisfied. I'm going to return to a standard VM install of win8.1 on LL host for now, which seems to tick all the boxes for my present needs.
Regards
Mike
I made some progress.
The mistake I made when I first installed win8.1 in VirtualBox was to shut the shut the machine down, following installation, and then trying to install the guest additions in the subsequent reboot. It's during the subsequent reboot that I got stuck at the UEFI Interactive Shell screen.
Following this, I reinstalled win8.1 as a VM in UEFI mode but, this time before I shut it down following installation, I installed the guest additions right away. This meant I avoided the UEFI Interactive Shell entirely.
All went very well, following this, until one of the security patches (around 700MB) refused to install. I went through the procedure recommended by a win8.1, specifically for installation of this patch, using windows command line, but to no avail. Subsequent reboots just resulted in the VM freezing. So it seems early days for UEFI for windows in VBox, at least for me. My curiosity was piqued by a UEFI VM, but is now satisfied. I'm going to return to a standard VM install of win8.1 on LL host for now, which seems to tick all the boxes for my present needs.
Regards
Mike
64bit OS (32-bit on Samsung[i] netbook) installed in [i]Legacy mode on MBR-formatted SSDs (except pi which uses a micro SDHC card):
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work