{"id":169,"date":"2013-07-30T15:10:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T13:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exchangetimes.wordpress.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2013-07-30T15:10:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T13:10:45","slug":"error-code-0x000000c4-when-trying-to-install-windows-8-or-8-1-in-virtual-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Error Code: 0x000000C4 when trying to install Windows 8 or 8.1 in Virtual Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried installing Windows 8.1 Preview in Virtual Box and received the below error: (If memory serves me correctly this was the same for Windows 8)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/exchangetimes.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/win-8-1-error.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-170\" alt=\"Win 8.1 error\" src=\"http:\/\/exchangetimes.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/win-8-1-error.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Run the following command and then try installing Windows 8.1 Preview again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;c:Program FilesOracleVirtualBoxVBoxManage.exe&#8221; setextradata &#8220;VM Name&#8221; VBoxInternal\/CPUM\/CMPXCHG16B 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This solved the issue for me. Found the information to the solution at this article <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.virtualbox.org\/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=56196\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried installing Windows 8.1 Preview in Virtual Box and received the below error: (If memory serves me correctly this was the same for Windows 8) Run the following command and then try installing Windows 8.1 Preview again. &#8220;c:Program FilesOracleVirtualBoxVBoxManage.exe&#8221; setextradata &#8220;VM Name&#8221; VBoxInternal\/CPUM\/CMPXCHG16B 1 This solved the issue for me. Found the information to the solution at this article here. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21,23],"tags":[52,53,54,55],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-box","category-windows","category-windows-8","tag-error-code-0x000000c4","tag-error-code-0x000000c4-when-installing-windows-8-in-virtual-box","tag-error-code-0x000000c4-when-installing-windows-8-1-preview-in-virtual-box","tag-error-code-0x000000c4-when-trying-to-install-windows-8-or-8-1-in-virtual-box"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}