On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 06:05:36PM -0500, Rich Pieri wrote: > Running your Ubuntu in Hyper-V is also an option to consider. Not only > do most Linux distros run just fine in Hyper-V, installing Ubuntu > 18.04.1 LTS in Hyper-V is formally supported.
How about the opposite? I'm going to be receiving a windows laptop which I want to convert to linux, but I feel it's prudent to retain the ability to run the factory windows(*) that's already on there. I'd like to run that windows inside virtualbox on linux (rather than just dual-booting). I figure I could either shrink the windows partition and then have virtualbox just run windows from it, or I could move the windows partition contents into a .vdi file in the laptop's One Filesystem to Rule Them All.(**) Though I've heard it said that consumer-grade Windows won't be happy to suddenly find itself running inside a vm, presumably some form of license enforcement - I'm not sure if it's detecting its enclosing vm directly, or if it's unhappy to be running from a different disk, or if people were running it elsewhere and it sees the cpu has changed. Any advice on whether to keep a windows partition or move to an image file? Any particularly good (or bad) ways of going about this conversion? Thanks! --grg (*) Windows because occasionally the need to run windows-only stuff pops up, factory because that tends to work best with a laptop's specific devices (even though I expect virtualbox will get in the way of some of that..) (**) Since you mentioned them, I'm looking at zfs or btrfs, though I'm not sure this affects much the main question here. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss