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Win8.1 as a VirtualBox VM on Apple’s Mac OS X

I want to run a UK-English Windows 8.1 in a VM. I purchased a DVD.

VirtualBox 4.3.12 offers Windows 8.1 as a supported guest operating system. Creating the VM looks easy. When I attempt to boot from the DVD, this message gets displayed after a couple of minutes:

FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.

This usually means, the DVD is corrupted – but is it really corrupted?

I got a real PC to boot from that DVD, so that DVD is not corrupted. Mac OS X resp. my MacBook Pro is simply not capable to properly mount that DVD, and it also doesn’t let VirtualBox properly access the DVD contents.

I created an ISO image from that DVD on some Linux DVD in the “hotel”, where I am stayed at that time.

Creating the VM from that ISO image simply succeeded.

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