On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:53:00 +0100, chris hallsworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Exactly the reason VBox does not make it 'easy' to do. Direct access is not as big a problem if your providing a dedicated disk. But if you give a VM access to a partition on a disk that does other things the results of two OSs accessing the disk at once are undocumented. Also anything that can go wrong with a physical machine and more can go wrong with your VM. Again - undocumented problems MAY await. -- Using Opera M2: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
