Mel Flynn wrote:
Hi,
is there any good working virtualization software on FreeBSD that can work
with an existing Vista installation? I have a slice on my disk with ~20G of
vista, for taxes and some games. As far as skimming through virtualbox user
manual told me, it will need to install vista itself on the FreeBSD box.
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 7 (0x07),(NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX)
start 63, size 50473061 (24645 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 8/ sector 44
Also, it would probably take me a few days to locate the original vista DVD
that came with the laptop, so I'd really like to avoid that. ;)
Of course, I'm also open to tricks that allow me to use that installation even
if it means going through the normal motions.
Hi,
well, not a real solution; ~1 Year ago I used the VMWare Converter to
convert my physical Windows XP Installation into a VMDK, copy that to my
Linux Machine, mount that disk into VirtualBox, run a
Repair-Installation - and was done. The Image uses to run fine from
within VirtualBox since then.
As there is a Virtual Box Port in the works now for FreeBSD - though
currently a bit limited re. Network, it might come somewhat close to
what you want. Please note, that I did not yet check that mentioned
Image with FBSD-VBox but only use a smaller "test" Image.
For the Converter see http://www.vmware.com/download/converter/
As my Experience is a bit outdated and was with an older Version of both
(VBox, Converter) there is a chance that it might no longer work at
all... But it might be worth a try.
Cheers,
_ralf_
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