i read your post but it doesnt seem to be the problem i have 512mb of ram allocated to my virtualbox well ive decided to give up on the slipstream and have downloaded the msdn version of the korean VLK w/ SP3 im in the process of testing the install it should work...emphasis on SHOULD....will be back to update update: well seems to pass the key input screen so i assume all is well (well it should since its a msdn release) now to nlite it and hope for the best....wish me luck ^^