On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Paul Richards <[email protected]> wrote: > I have installed Windows 7 twice on my Mac. Once is a physical > install (Boot Camp) and the other is a virtual install (VirtualBox). > > When I switch between the two I find that Windows 7 prompts me to > reactivate. I am wary of how many times I can do this, and for now I > am restricting myself to use only one. > > > I see that VMware Fusion has a solution to this: > http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003426 > > Does a similar solution exist for VirtualBox?
I'm not sure about that but I got around it in XP by booting natively and virtually using the same partition managed through hardware profiles. I would assume Windows 7 would have that ability as well. You have to setup a raw disk vmdk file[1], which is basically a small .vmdk file that references the real disk partition. Richard [1] Virtualbox User manual, section 9.6.1, "http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/3.2.0/UserManual.pdf"; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
