> Do you have mind-reading capabilities? :-) It's precisely one of the > things that I'm experimenting with.
Heh well it seems like an obvious "next step" in virtualization, and what developer couldn't use the ability to fire up an arbitrary mix of versioned OS images? :) > BTW, at this point, it would be nice to know if anybody else has tried > the same, or knows something like that. I have only investigated it partly. Dual-booting Ubuntu + Windows, telling VirtualBox to use the native Windows partition as image within Ubuntu (only works with post-XP, since you require multiple hardware profiles). However I don't like the fact that you have to designate a master/host, although I suppose a very simple bootstrapping Linux image could be used solely to launch a *real* desktop OS (Linux/OSX/ Windows) - is that what you are attempting? My experiences are that graphics can be a bitch, but speed feels as good as native when running from off an SSD. As you already mentioned accessing a universal filesystem is a tricky quest for the lowest common denominator. Though I had good success with the EXT2 IFS driver for Windows running up against an ext3 data partition, except one has to live with non-journaling. In any event, looking forward to reading your blog post. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
