Surely it's dangerous though as VirtualBox would then have direct access to the physical disk and their partition(s). Yes it's possible as VMware implements that capability as an advanced feature. But surely virtual disks are safer as, well, the operating system is accessed from the virtual disk, rather than directly on the physical disk.
Chris Hallsworth E-mail and Facebook: [email protected] MSN: [email protected] Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Twitter: http://twitter.com/christopherh40 On 24/04/2010 16:05, Ilyes Gouta wrote: > Hi, > > I had this curious idea for a while now and I am wondering if it's > feasible at all: Is it possible to create a new virtual machine in > VirtualBox and attach to it a real, physical hard disk instead of just > a VDI image, so that the VM will actually boot on the OS installed on > that disk and have access to the user's files. That would be really > cool! Image a VM hosted on Windows and having access to the Linux > distribution installed on the same hard disk (or another one), on a > different partition. Such a solution would save me from rebooting > every time to access my files. > > Is it at all possible? Is security THE argument for not implementing > such a feature? > > -Ilyes Gouta > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
