Hi folks
I have been using virutal box in win8.
My problem is when I loaded up mint as the virutal operating SYSTEM.
I could only run it from the DVD. I tried to load it on the hardrive the first
time loading it. At that time it just wouldn't load. I started using it off the DVD
it worked fine but slow. I thought putting it on the disk is going to speed EVERYTHING up majorly
I went back into virt box and deleted the mint system, but left the VD properties alone. I then tried again to load
mint. The problem is it just doesn't show up under the linux. ubuntu and all the other systems do show up though.I just tried it using Mint Mate 16. Booted the DVD, clicked on "Install Linux Mint". It installed and when it rebooted it was running off the virtual disk. Not sure how to ADVISE you but it installed just like any other Linux install I've done in VirtualBox.

If I were you, I would completely delete the Mint VM and start over from scratch.

Hope you have a better experience this time.


I couldn't get rid of virt Box at first. the way I did finally get rid of it was to run a program called space sniffer. In that program I was able to delete it. I then reinstalled everything the way it should have. It works fine now. Thanks for the input strollin.

GLAD you got it working. Did you actually remove VirtualBox or did you delete the Mint VM?