Hi, Thanks everybody! Actually I got it working yesterday, on Windows 7 as host, and indeed I didn't have to modify the original MBR to get Linux booting.
The performance was acceptable until I had to plug my external USB hard disk and setup the "bypass" USB filter in VirtualBox to get Linux to access my other data: the I/O is really slow (compared to a native OS access). Is there any way to crank the speed a bit faster? All in all, I'm really amazed at the flexibility that VirtuabBox offers! Thanks! Regards, Ilyes Gouta. On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Robert Bronsdon <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
