The experiment as of now is a failure just so you would want to before you read this. I here share how I did do what I did to try to succeed.

I have been running a Windows 2003 Server  on a real machine past few months. Since its on the internet, virus attacks attacks are far too common. Eventually got very irritated and had to start on this experiment. Read docs of VirtualBox and locate on trick on creating a VKDK image from a disk itself. So physically connected my win2k3 disk on a existing ubuntu 9 with latest VirtualBox. Collected some disk clonning utilities include an ISO of ultimate boot CD.

Fired the commands and made a VMDK. Then, created a new Virtual Machine and made a new virtual disk on 100GB. Also hooked my VMDK on the same machine. started the machine using XXCopy Cloner and asked it to clone the real disk on a virtual disk. That took a some half hour and got done.

Then unplugged the vmdk and iso from the machine, restarted it and tried to boot. That is the problem. I have set the disk type to SATA and allowed also options on Virtualbox machine config. The best I can do is get a OS selector menu (pressing F8) and also getting a Windows 2003 Server starting logo screen. It never goes past this point after all efforts. Even  tried safe mode or VGA mode boot but all in vain.

I doubt there is any VirtualMachine detector to halt the system. I have repaird the system with a Windows 2003 ISO too. Done fixboot and fixmbr on the disk. But have not been able to go beyond this.

Sharing this blog so someone can go past this point and share on the fix.