Monday, February 21, 2011

How to reboot in safe mode inside Virtualbox?

Guest: Windows XP.

In Virtualbox, when you have Windows XP as guest os and you need to reboot in safemode MSconfig utility gives you an option.


  1. Start Msconfig (Run > msconfig)
  2. Select the 'BOOT.INI' tab.
  3. Check the '/SAFEBOOT' option under 'Boot Options'.
  4. Apply > Ok and reboot.
Un-check the option to boot normally.

Hope that was useful.

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Unknown said...

great it worked fine! thnx