I have been evaluating different virtualization software recently and have been quite impressed with VirtualBox for desktop virtualization. The user interface is simple and easy to use, and the hardware video acceleration is a real plus. Recently, while installing Windows XP in VirtualBox I encountered a BAD_POOL_HEADER BSOD when booting from an XP installation CD created with nLite (just after "Starting Windows..." is displayed in the status bar). With some help from a thread on MSFN, I tracked the issue down to the Intel drivers that I had included on the CD. I was using version 9.6.0.1014 of the Intel Matrix Storage Manager Floppy Configuration Utility (f6flpy), recreating the CD with version 8.9.0.1023 (from the archives) solved the problem. Note: The choice of IDE controller in the VirtualBox configuration does not appear to matter, both ICH6 and PIIX4 resulted in the BSOD.