Using physical devices for virtual machines is not recommended, but yet possible.
The gui can not do this. The command line tool VBoxManage can setup physical disks for use with virtual machines and then you can install an OS on the physical device. here is my question, why do you want to do this. vbox tools for windows allows shared folders so you can have read write file sharing between the hosts. I don't recommend dual booting your box between xp and linux and then accessing the ntfs partitions directly with vbox. Your windows install will become confused/corrupted between the different in physical hardware and virtual hardware. Windows is much more stable with no hardware changes, so virtualization sort of protects windows from hardware changes by masking the physical devices for the virtual ones. I would suggest that you really think about what you want to accomplish and really decide if its worth it. Stick with the virtual disks it really is the way to go, except in very rare cases. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Nancy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I want to install Windows XP on /dev/sda2 through virtualbox VM and > make it bootable through modify grub.cfg of Linux host machine. > Is that possible to install a bootable OS on physical disk partition > through VM? If yes, how to do? If no, why? > > -- > Best wishes, > Nancy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports > standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. > Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great > experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today > http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
