On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 11:08:33PM +0200, Allan wrote: > On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 21:37:03 +0100 > Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 09:19:00PM +0200, > > [email protected] wrote: > > > Le 09/09/2019 à 20:42, Chris Green a écrit : > > > > I have a Lenovo T470 laptop on which I run xubuntu. It also has a > > > > Windows 7 partition. It would be really handy to be able to run > > > > Windows 7 as a virtual machine. What's the easiest way to do > > > > this? > > > > > > > > Is the easiest route to use VMware's tools and then convert the > > > > VMware virtual machine or are there better ways? > > > > > > > why not use virtualbox? > > > > > By "use VMware's tools" I mean use VMware's tools to create the > > virtual machine image, then I'll use VirtualBox to run the W7 image. > > Virtualbox doesn't have utilities (or at least I don't think it has) > > to create virtual machine images from real machines. > > > > ... or does VirtualBox now have a way to create a virtual machine > > image from a 'real' installation on disk? > > > > VirtualBox have had such a feature for ages. You can create 'images', > which points to a whole HDD or you can point it to a specific partition. > Do make sure you do not mount such a disk or partition at the same time > as you open it i Vbox. > > The nice manual explains how to do it in section 9.8 > Thanks Alan, that's half way to what I want to do. However it sounds as if the above describes how to use the *actual* disk as a VirtualBox image, I want to create an independent copy of the OS which I can modify without changing the original on the hard disk partition.
If I do what's descrbed in section 9.8 of the manual can I then *copy* that virtual machine to a 'normal' VirtualBox image? -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
