Seth Keiper wrote the following on 05/31/2008 12:31 PM: > > > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Dennis Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Greetings; > > I have spent a whole day searching and googling > for the answer to this with no luck. > > I have a large Win2k installation that I > have lots of problems with that I want to > migrate to Debian 4.0/vbox. My plan is to > use Debian as the main system and move > applications and work from Win to it as > quickly as possible, but still have Windows > available for the few remaining apps that > have no equivalents yet. > > But I can't find where it is revealed how to > migrate/convert/attach the windows disks > to the virtual windows machine running > under virtualbox. > > This will be done on the same physical hardware > that windows is currently running on. > > Somebody please point me to where this is is detailed! > > Many, many TIA! > Dennis > > > What is your version of VirtualBox? > 1.6.0? 1.5.6? > > The following will help you with this, what you want is raw disk access. > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows > > ** Heed and reread the warnings in chapter 9.9 in the user manual ** > > This is where you will get most of your information: > for 1.5.4, chapter 9.9 the user manual: > http://virtualbox.org/download/1.5.4/UserManual.pdf > > for 1.5.6, chapter 9.9 the user manual: > http://virtualbox.org/download/1.5.6/UserManual.pdf > > for 1.6.0, chapter 9.9 in the user manual: > http://virtualbox.org/download/1.6.0/UserManual.pdf >
> > -- > Seth Keiper @ C-WD.NET <http://C-WD.NET> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.c-wd.net > http://c-wd.net/GetFireFox/ Seth; Thanks for the effort, but none of those references tells *how* to create VMDK or raw disk access, except by using a version of VBoxManage that is only available with the commercial version of vbox. Regards, Dennis _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
