On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Neel Mehta <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > I have 2 operating systems - Windows 7 Pro and Ubuntu 10.10 (Dual boot). I > wish to use this existing windows installation using Virtualbox in Ubuntu as > well as use it in the native mode. Is it possible to do so? Can someone > guide me how to do so? > Thanks in advance. > Thanks and Regards, > Neel Mehta > Fourth year Undergraduate student, > Electrical Engineering, > IIT Bombay >
I don't understand your question perhaps, but it sounds like you want to know if VirtualBox can access a real physical partition. It can, but it is not supported and you can not do it at all from the GUI. You can only do this from the command line VBoxManage tool that is installed as part of the VBox system. I would not attempt to do what I think you are asking. Pick one OS to run on the bare metal, and install VBox and run the other OS in a virtual container. If this is a server, then maybe we have to have a bare minimum OS install on the bare metal and then two virtual containers for real use, but you don't specify. Come back to the list with more information about the problem you are trying to solve. Maybe then I (or another list member) can come up with a better answer. Rance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
