Easy, huh? The above methods are the two most common things you'll encounter, but if you want to virtualize Windows from Linux, Windows from Windows, or OS X from anything, you're going to have a harder time.
Virtualizing Windows from Linux or Windows is possible, but it's much more difficult and can be a bit more dangerous to your data. If you want to do so, we recommend proceeding with extra caution. We aren't going to get into the nitty gritty here, but this article should help you get started.
Virtualizing a Mac partition is going to be extremely difficult, if it's even possible at all. We've shown you how to run OS X in VirtualBox before, and if you recall, it's a pretty hairy process. Throwing another wrench into the equation is going to make it all the more difficult, so we haven't tried it here.
If you do, though, give us a shout and let us know how it goes. The A. About Lifehacker Advisor Lifehacker Store. By Whitson Gordon. Wyze Cam Spotlight. Maybe a better separation could be used? Me again, I was able to boot!
Rebooting into linux and then launching VirtualBox allowed me to boot windows. I just need to activate this windows Me again-again I haven't encountered any of the problems you are mentioning but I will try to update my how to as soon I a bit of time.
I follow the instructions and end up with the following output from your 'magic' command. Could this be because it is not Vista but XP? Hi, I've never tried to boot Vista because I don't own a Vista :- Ok for your problem, it seems to me that the file has not been found? Are you sure that the full path is correct.
Please put the output of the full command maybe it will be clearer. In order to have it working you also might have to run mergeide. The magic command does not work with VirtualBox 1. Thanks for this how-to. For some reason, only the closed source version has that command. I think I will have to update this how to very soon as there is a new version of VirtualBox.
Is it still possible to boot the Windows as a standalone system? Or can you only run it with VirtualBox? This worked for me. Thank you! I had much trouble with the Ubuntu thread by Sand Lee. Lee does not point out these serious issues as you have. I had to do a freash install with Mr. Lee's instructions. You have written this "how to" in a most professional and complete tutorial.
My hat is off to you sir! Before I go ahead and try this, I'd also like to know if I can continue to boot directly from my XP partion? Thanks Ronald Very happy to help. I've written this little post because I myself struggled a lot to find the right info and the right procedure I will try to update this post when I will do it again on my laptop with the latest version of Virtual Box.
Cheers Guillaume. Hi Steeve, Sorry but I was away on holiday. On my computer I can still boot directly on windows so I guess that it should work for you. Hi, Im using Fedora7 and dont have install-mbr. Can u suggest a way to create the winxp. Note that the open source version of VirtualBox does not contain the commands you need to do this. You can download the free personal edition from Sun's web site. Hi Seth, I guess so but I never tried with vista If you are successful please let me know.
I did everything, but i'm getting an error. Any ideas? All rights reserved. Cancel that, I just had to prefix sudo to the command. Sorry Slaps himself on the forehead I did get some more errors on registering, but it says that the vmdk was created successfully. Ok this time it's more difficult.
But I went ahead and fired up VirtualBox, and tried to create the machine. I have two files as output from the above: WinXP-pt. I noticed that they were owned by root only, so I chown'ed them. Still get the same error. I regenerated the vdmk, but still continue to get this error. Is there something I'm missing? I have installed 32 bit Windows XP.
Could that be the problem? Any help is very gratefully accepted, i would dearly love to get this working. It's booting the entire disk. Swift Arrow, Happy to see that you managed to boot your windows XP partition even if you had to map the entire disk. VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename. I was trying to link my vista using this method, but i get this error, what am i doing wrong?
The howto is written wrong. Do NOT execute first command. Make sure you dont already have. Have fun. Thanks to erstazi freenode irc vbox, for this update. His comment:. To Harold, You have to follow the instructions from step 1 to 4 to have it working properly.
Gostovanje is right you probably have executed the command createrawvmdk. Just delete the. To Gostovanje, the howto is not wrong as the beginning of the article explains what is wrong when you create a. Hi, Thanks for this post. It is exactly what I'm looking for, but unfortunately I can't get it to work.
Do you know what might be causing this? Cheers Van. I tried the steps but omitted the MBR steps. I can boot into "Safe Mode with Networking". Can anyone comment on what to do? I just do it following the howto. Why and how to resolve this problem. I am running fedora and I do have apt installed, however, I cannot get install-mbr at all.
I have tried apt-get install mbr and it does not exist. What can I do at this point? Something that I don't fully understand to do with drive geometry and the way that the 2. Our Website - is a great way to find new friends or partners, for fun, dating and long term relationships. Apart from this post, I have gone through almost all of your posts these are really very advantageous and unique, keep it up please!
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If I were to guess it is about x slower. Is this normal? Does the size of the Windows partition matter? Mine is about 80GB. Does it work with Windows-7? I need something like this very badly. Please suggest me an alternative. Thanks for sharing. Hi, I strongly appreciate your post Thanks, Windows VPS. I did this with Windows 7 and it worked perfectly save for some permissions errors I had overcome unti I ran it, and it stopped booting on a black screen showing "MBR 1FA:" Any ideas on this?
Press 1, F or A. Great info just what I needed, thanks! Anyway, you should look into VirtualBox documentation, in particular in Advanced storage configuration::Using a raw host hard disk from a guest.
You can not directly run the Windows installed physically on a harddisk partition or on a different disk. However, you can migrate the Windows installed on your physical computer to a VirtualBox virtual machine. It can be done. I actually reinstall Windows on my hdd from VirtualBox while running Linux and then I am able to boot it normally. Create extra hardware profile on Windows an use that when booting it from the VM with raw disk access.
MS removed the option to choose a hardware profile when booting in Windows Vista though, so you might be limited to Windows XP or earlier I know it's an old question but I faced myself struggling with this problem during this days. After many tries I ended up with a neat and clean solution:. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?
Learn more. Asked 9 years, 11 months ago. Active 3 years, 10 months ago. Viewed 30k times. Improve this question. I'd be very suprised if that is possible. Then again, I like nice surprises.
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