Re: Virtualize an existing installation of Windows
- From: "Richard Shaw" <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:03:05 -0600
On Dec 11, 2007 1:11 PM, Dylan Semler <dylan.semler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Using gparted, I've been able to sneak a Fedora partition on my work
laptop and dual boot F8 and XP. My next ambition is to be able to boot my
XP partition as a virtual machine in Linux using Xen. I've seen a how-to
for vmware[1], but I feel that Xen performs better (especially with the VT-x
extension) and I'd like to try that first. Does anyone know if this is
possible?
[1]http://mazimi.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/virtualization-of-an-existing-physical-partition-of-windows-within-linux/
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I don't know about using Xen. I wanted to go that route but my processor
does not support VT-x. I use VirtualBox and it works quite well. In their
tutorial they have instructions for building a VMDK file that points to the
partition. It may be more automated now but it was pretty manual when I did
it. A couple of notices:
- You need to be root to access the partition directly. I accomplish this by
opening a termal and sudo VirtualBox.
- Do not mount the partition in Linux and boot the virtual machine at the
same time, you can seriously mess up your system this way.
- Boot into XP first and create a new hardware profile just for use with
Xen/Virtualbox so it doesn't keep re-detecting hardware when you switch back
and forth.
Richard
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