Hi :) I believe that VirtualBox does also allow you to use an existing Operating System that is already installed on a hard-drive too.
It's something i still haven't looked into but i have confidence in you figuring it out. I still think it might help to test-drive a couple of virtual machines on your system just to get an idea of what's going on. There is a lot of fuss&bother that makes virtual machines sound almost mystical and complicated but in truth it's really just like any other program. When you run it or switch it on then it uses resources such as cpu-cycles and ram. When you switch it off or stop running it (or whatever you want to call it) then hose resources are "freed up" for you main machine again. Unlike most programs you can set how much ram the virtual-machine uses and the program itself uses a little bit for itself. So on my machine i can run 1 virtual machine and give it just over 1 Gb Ram leaving my main machine with just under 1Gb of Ram - or i can run 2 virtual machines and give them each 512Mb of Ram, or other such combination. I can't run 2 virtual machines that each have 1 Gb Ram at the same time as each other! I could have lots of virtual machines, even hundreds of them, that each use 1Gb of Ram as long as i don't run (or switch on) more than 1 at a time. People like to make virtualisation sound a LOT more complicated than it really is because it makes them seem smarter or because they don't understand it well enough it make it sound as simple as it really is. The tricky bit i trying to figure out how to use the program and VirtualBox tends to keep things fairly simple imo. Regards from Tom :) On 7 December 2016 at 16:29, Philip Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/12/16 15:42, Davis, Felmon wrote: > > On Dec 7, 2016 8:23 AM, "Philip Jackson" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Would virtualbox (or other) be able to get Windows running on its own > >> hard disk ? It doesn't have an iso file - just a working version > >> (licensed) of Windows10. > > > > I made an error - a link I sent yesterday I thought addressed this but it > > wasn't about hosting the Windows stuff under Linux. I will be researching > > this too. > > > > did though install again via licensed (but unactivated) Windows iso and > > smooth as ice (note: removed repository VB and downloaded Oracle's VB). > > > Tom and Felmon, > > I don't have a Windows10 installation disk nor an iso file. My Windows > was originally Windows7 (legit and I must have the Win7 installation > lurking around somewhere) and I took the free upgrade from MS sometime > last year. > > So, if I understand correctly, if I install VB I will then need to > install Windows7 in that virtual machine using the original CD/DVD > disk(s) ? That's where the question of new installation and licensing > comes in, I suppose. > > It would be nice if I could just create a VB machine and tell it to load > the hard disk which already has the workable installation of Windows 10, > together with the couple of applications I use from time to time. > > By the way, Felmon, why did you reject the distro version of VB and make > a direct download from Oracle ? > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
