I have done this for several years now. I run Ubuntu 12.04 on a laptop. I installed VirtualBox from the repositories. I bought a copy of MS Win 7 :(, installed it as a "guest" OS. Works beautifully. I just start VB in an empty workspace, start Win in the box and switch back an forth by just changing workspaces. No need to reboot. I also have different distributions of Linux installed as guests so I can play with them as time permits with no rebooting. VB is a fairly massive system and I had to read the documentation very carefully. I love it. YMMV, but it works great for me.
Bobby > I'd be interested in hearing results. I didn't think it was possible > either but I didn't dig too hard, and it was a number of years ago > when I looked.ge > Paul > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Csaba Toth <csaba.toth...@gmail.com > <mailto:csaba.toth...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > ServerFault: > > http://serverfault.com/questions/241678/booting-a-native-windows-install-in-virtualbox-is-it-possible > Looks like it's possible. I went down this route some years ago. > Maybe I'll give another tr > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Csaba Toth > <csaba.toth...@gmail.com <mailto:csaba.toth...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I'm looking > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9811742/boot-a-native-os-on-the-harddisk-as-a-virtual-machine > The last answer looks like succeed the other way around: it > booted Linux with raw disk access with a Windows host. > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Csaba Toth > <csaba.toth...@gmail.com <mailto:csaba.toth...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > If you figure that out I'm extremely interested! > I'm also using dual boot devices (even my tablet is Linux > + Win). If we figure that out, it'd mean I don't have to > boot into Windows most of the time. > The problem is that when you install Windows natively, the > OS sees your real devices. If you'd manage to boot up your > native Win partition into VirtualBox, the OS sitting there > would see completely different devices: virtualized > version of everything. > > A couple of years ago I digged into forums and all about > that, but I didn't succeed. > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Jack Coats > <j...@coats.org <mailto:j...@coats.org>> wrote: > > Yes. I would like to 'boot' my Win7 in a virtual box > under Linux Mint, instead of having to reboot into > Windows. > On my machine > sda1 is Windows > sda2 is windows recovery partition > sda3 is linux mint > sda4 is linux swap > > Partitions SDA1 and SDA3 are bootable. > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Andrew McElroy > <sophri...@gmail.com <mailto:sophri...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Define live disk. Do you mean like a partition? > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 22, 2015, at 10:56 PM, Jack Coats > <j...@coats.org <mailto:j...@coats.org>> wrote: > >> I have a laptop that runs Mint or Win7 nicely. >> It is set up to dual boot. >> >> Is there a way to configure virtual box to allow >> using a 'live disk' instead of a system image. >> >> If so, could you point me to a tutorial? >> >> Thanks in advance... >> >> ><> ... Jack >> >> "Whatever you do, work at it with all your >> heart"... Colossians 3:23 >> "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never >> tried anything new." - Albert Einstein >> "You don't manage people; you manage things. You >> lead people." - Admiral Grace Hopper, USN >> "Tell me and I forget. 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