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On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 14:21 +0100, Grant Sewell wrote: > > Does anyone know if I can boot an already existing windows setup within VB - > > all the ones I've looked at tell me how to install a new setup but I just > > want to pop up windows as is for a mo... > > Tom te tom te tom > > Yes, you can, but it's not advisable. It is recommended that you > first setup (within Windows) 2 hardware profiles - one for the native > booting and one for the "booted inside the VM" scenario, that way the > system won't be forever rebooting because of "new hardware". Then > you'd need to create a VDI file (I think, or is it VMDK, or something) > that points to the actual partition. There are some details of doing > this in one of the VirtualBox manuals - I think it's in the > commandline references section. I had a Windows partition on one of my HD's a year or two ago and did configurer VirtualBox to boot that fairly easily as I recall. What Grant says about using 2 profiles is the correct way I believe, as I was just messing around and bothered about breaking the Windows install I didn't bother though. It all worked rather well too, even rebooting the computer to boot off the physical Windows install *properly* everything seemed ok. Nothing broke back in the VB boot either. I may have been lucky though. It can work though it seems, and fairly nicely. -- John Williams My linux blog of notes and guides http://subbass.blogspot.com/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html