On 05/18/2010 08:56 AM, drew wymore wrote:
> Not tested but google seems to say this should work.
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24864/virtualbox-from-an-existing-partition
>
> Use vmware converter to convert the existing install into a vmware
> instance, load said instance into Virtual Box (it's supported
> apparently) ... profit???

Thanks for the suggestion. I installed VMWare converter but then learned 
that it doesn't work with dd images. Norton Ghost, Backup Exec, etc 
images seem to work, but not raw dd images.

It can also reportedly connect to a running instance of the OS, but 
requires admin credentials. Unfortunately the reason why I'm trying to 
do this rather than doing a full install of WinXP myself is that I'm 
trying to convert the WinXP image from my work laptop into a VM I can 
run within Linux, and I don't have full admin privileges within Windows. :(

Scott

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Scott Garman
sgarman at zenlinux dot com
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