On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 07:09:57 +0100 Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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, Indeed > 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? Sure. Boot any Linux in Vbox (even a live iso), and include both the Win 'image' as described above, and a new VDI that is large enough. Then you can just dd between them. Allan. _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
