On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Rance Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Because my DVD-ROM was broken. I don't want to make it fixed or buy a new one just for install system. I goolged and following many ways to try to install windows XP through USB flash disk, failed. Blue screen, missing ...inf, status 18 error....., fail to boot from USB... Enough! why install windows XP through USB flash disk is so hard for me ? Then I follow a paper titled "Using Linux to Install Windows XP With Network Booting", Good paper, but lack of detail of how to create windows PE CD with OSD. It block me again. Oh, no, I hate windows, but I have to install it for some applications! Install Ubuntu through USB is so easy. Finally, I think about VM. #sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -file /home/nancy/winxp.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 2 -register But the commands failed with ......ACESS DENY #sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -file /home/nancy/winxp.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda2 -register It works. Maybe you should update your docs. The install process goes well. But when finished, fail to boot from VM again, missing winnt.inf or sif I cann't remember. Using the same ISO to install windows XP on winxp.vdi have no that problem. What should I do ? > I don't recommend dual booting your box between xp and linux and then > accessing the ntfs partitions directly with vbox. Sure I won't. But if that works, that would be so greate! > Your windows install will become confused/corrupted between the > different in physical hardware and virtual hardware. Yes, that's the biggest problem. > 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. Now I just want a Windows XP installed on my computer without DVD-ROM, floppy disk. > Stick with the virtual disks it really is the way to go, except in > very rare cases. I wonder why VM support using a raw host hard disk for a guest? what for? -- Best Regards, 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
