VirtualBox: trying to boot Win XP in Safe Mode: how to do ctrl-alt-delete

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I am trying to boot a Win XP Pro VM in Safe Mode in Virtual Box 4.1.4

I used DISK2VHD to create the VHD. The VHD is 95GB on disk but VirtualBox reports it as 145GB. The boot hangs, so I'm trying to use Safe Mode so see what's up.

Is this possible? To boot Win XP in Safe Mode CTRL-ALT-DELETE is required, but Windows 7 is intercepting the keyboard, even when the bottom right hand corner keyboard-capture icon of VirtualBox is indicating that the keyboard is NOT being captured by the Host OS. So I gather that CTRL-ALT-DELETE remains with the host O/S?

Best Answer

You can send a CTRL-ALT-DELETE to your VM by selecting Insert Ctrl-Alt-Del from the Machine menu or you can type hostdel. I think the host key is right Ctrl

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