On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <[email protected]> wrote: > I bought a new PC with Windows 8 pre-installed. I need Windows for > Windows-only applications like TurboTax, Dragon Naturally Speaking and > Netflix, but I'd like to make Windows a virtual guest and install Ubuntu as > the host on this new PC. .... >... > > Also, it looks like VirtualBox will simply run a vmdk file, so no need to > convert it from vmdk to vdi.
Just because VirtualBox will OPEN a vmdk file doesn't mean that it will BOOT the OS installed there. I think of it this way: Linux might be able to mount a FAT or even NTFS file system, but it doesn't mean that Linux will run DOS or Windows programs which happen to be installed there. The drivers which are installed is your native Windows installation are unlikely to be identical to what is required to talk to the emulated hardware that VirtualBox supplies. Moving those drives to a vmdk virtual disk image isn't going to change that. With some luck and judicious installs of drivers before the P2V conversion, you might very well be able to make this work. Looking at the VMware vCenter Converter User's Guide (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/convsa_50_guide.pdf), it looks like it might do some of the driver installions for you (for VMware). OTOH, it talks about problems with OEM licenses. Having no experience with using it, I can't say for sure what will work. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
