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Re:Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox by darklajid on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @06:25AM (#2995604)
> After BOIS has been configured, you need to do a reboot, shut down, wait about 10 seconds and then start up again.

Ignoring the BIOS spelling thing: What is this 10 second wait here? Magic? What do I have to say and which type of animal should I offer to the machine?

More serious: Why?

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Re:Settings required to run Windows 8 in VirtualBox by crististm on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @06:46AM (#2995657)
This is mostly a safer version of a quick power on/off/on. Some badly designed power sources will cough when they start with charged capacitors... Ten seconds is neither enough nor too much.
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