Hi All,
I have a box which has WinXP dual-booting with Gentoo. I would like to be
able to have access to a clone of the existing WinXP installation, from
within Gentoo. The original WinXP partition should be left well alone, as it
is business critical. I have read the Virtualbox documentatio
On Sat, 3 May 2008 12:48:30 +0100, Mick wrote:
> I have a box which has WinXP dual-booting with Gentoo. I would like to
> be able to have access to a clone of the existing WinXP installation,
> from within Gentoo. The original WinXP partition should be left well
> alone, as it is business critic
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 3 May 2008 12:48:30 +0100, Mick wrote:
>
>> I have a box which has WinXP dual-booting with Gentoo. I would like to
>> be able to have access to a clone of the existing WinXP installation,
>> from within Gentoo. The original WinXP partition should be left well
>> al
On 5/4/08, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 May 2008 12:48:30 +0100, Mick wrote:
> >
> >> I have a box which has WinXP dual-booting with Gentoo. I would like to
> >> be able to have access to a clone of the existing WinXP installation,
> >> from within Gento
On Sunday 04 May 2008, Akselii wrote:
> On 5/4/08, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > If you copy it to a VM, you are running it on different hardware. The
> > > MS profit-protection system will kick in, requiring you to reactivate
> > > it for the VM "hardware".
> >
On Sun, 4 May 2008 19:47:13 +0100, Mick wrote:
> I assumed (wrongly) that since it is the same physical hardware and the
> same partition image it will not ask me to re-register it.
But it's not the same hardware, you are now running it on the VB virtual
hardware.
--
Neil Bothwick
Smoking Can
On Sunday 04 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 4 May 2008 19:47:13 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > I assumed (wrongly) that since it is the same physical hardware and the
> > same partition image it will not ask me to re-register it.
>
> But it's not the same hardware, you are now running it on the V
Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 04 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Sun, 4 May 2008 19:47:13 +0100, Mick wrote:
>>> I assumed (wrongly) that since it is the same physical hardware and the
>>> same partition image it will not ask me to re-register it.
>> But it's not the same hardware, you are now runni
On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:29:32 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > But it's not the same hardware, you are now running it on the VB
> > virtual hardware.
>
> Sure, but it's the same physical drive & IDE controller, no?
No. The gust OS sees only the virtual hardware presented by the VM. The
VM software handles
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