On 10/13/2009 05:07 PM, NoOp wrote: > In the past I've always created the VM on the same drive w/o major > issues. However I have several machines that are dual boot (linux on one > drive WinXP on the other) & have hesitated to try using those machines > to test using the 2nd drive as the VM. I've now aquired 2 recycled test > machines that have WinXP drives on them & now would like to give this a try. > > Environment: > - test machine > - 40Gb sda WinXPPro > - 40Gb sdb linux (Ubuntu 9.04) > - Dual-boot works w/o issue > > What I'd like to do is create a WinXPPro VirtualBox VM on the linux > drive (sdb), and rather than do it on the same drive, have it use the > WinXPPro installed on sda. > > I'm quite familiar with running Win2KPro guests from the same linux > drive & not afraid of RTFM. But older instructions from the web/forums, > etc, new docs, new versions of VirtualBox have me a little confused on > how to go about this. > > Note: I'm not worried about screwing up the test machine installs - I > currently have two of these machines to test with & can easily dd the > WinXP drive to a spare. So I would appreciate if someone can point me to > some relatively simple instructions on how I can go about this.
No takers eh? Anything that I need to clarify on what I'd like to do? _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
