Spiffy, i had a limited dislike of virtualbox under windows, but under Linux and being able to run this makes a whole new interest for me.
this will be interesting to see system performance as my windows partition is on a Intel on-board raid (wish *buntu 9.10 can see and read!) On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:33 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote: > Believe me, if _I_ can do it, it is not _THAT_ complicated... :) > > The 2 key points are: > 1.- Create your profile in windoze (valid for XP, Vista is another ball of > wax and 7 is utterly unknown to me) > > 2.- Create the disk for VBox pointing to the windoze partition *NOT* the > entire hard drive (unless you have toes of Titanium). > > Even though I found links with "most" of the instructions, most everything > was scattered all over the place and I didn't save the links. > > I ran a quick search and found a few: > http://dotneverland.blogspot.com/2008/08/running-your-physical-windows-xp.ht > ml > > There are too many variants as to point to a single page. Many will talk > about users and permissions that you better don't follow blindly. I had to > include the group "disk" to my user so I could access the partition. > Ugly, I know, but you hack what you have to hack... ;-) > ET > > PS: Use dogpile.com for searches... > > > > > Stephen writes: > >> i would love to see a link to those "fine grained instructions" you >> had found. i find this an interesting project. >> >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:04 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com >> <kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote: >>> Hello PLUG! >>> >>> Sometime ago I asked how to run a "hard" WinXP partition under VirtualBox. >>> Well, it ain't so difficult... :) >>> >>> This is what I did: (fine-grain steps are described elsewhere in the WEB) >>> >>> Before shutting down Windoze, I created a new "profile". >>> >>> I installed Kubuntu 9.10 in a flash-drive and, of course, installed >>> VirtualBox. >>> >>> Then I booted from the "stick", started VBox, created a hard-drive for the >>> physical WinXP partition using commands available in the "User's manual" >>> (RTFM?!?!?!) and created a machine for XP attached to that drive. >>> >>> Finally I booted WinXP in VBox, chose my "virtual" profile, installed >>> drivers and guest additions and now the XP machine is just an afterthought >>> where I get emails and IMs while working (secretly ;-) in my Linux >>> machine... :) >>> >>> I can also pull the stick and boot the machine from its normal boot record >>> and the only trace left is the profile and the guest additions (which were >>> not really needed) >>> >>> WinXP performance sucks, but I hardly use that machine anyway... >>> >>> I like it! 8) >>> THANKS!!! :) >>> ET >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
