I have been involved in this project. I fixed the issue in UpdatePacks x86 and x64 now. In x86 some files are tampered with. from the previous creator Do you have a picture of that problem? I think it's not a problem. UpdatePacks
You are the bug, you just forget to format that partition. Its not designed to overwrite existing installation.
Im sorry i did not know i had to format, by the way XP2ESD can install just on partition 1 or will work on any partition ?
There are many use cases where formatting the disk and/or clean installing is exactly what you want to avoid.
For me, upgrading from VirtualBox 4.2.20 (the version recommended on the first post) to VirtualBox 7.0.8 (the current latest version) fixed the crashes.
Thanks, Ill try that Edit 10:32: Sofar so good, now installing in VB Edit 2: I had forgotten how superslow XP setup actually is....
VirtualBox 4.2.20 is only used for XP host, if your Host OS is windows 8.1 or newer, use the latest version of VirtualBox.