Hi. Thanks for the prompt reply and sorry for not explaining it clearly.
I have been using Ubuntu as my OS since quite some time and using Windows XP as guest OS for some of the windows based softwares that I need. I use these softwares side by side with certain Ubuntu packages and hence need the virtualbox. I also have Windows 7 installed as a dual boot OS along with Ubuntu mainly for playing games as most games do not work with Virtualbox (or are difficult to configure). So, I was hoping that if I could use the windows 7 OS using Virtualbox too, then I could do away with Windows XP virtualbox and work with just 1 windows installation. Then I can play games by booting into Windows 7 OS and also work with the softwares that I need using windows 7 in virtualbox. I hope things are more clear than before. I tried googling but could not find a proper link for this. Thanks and Regards, Neel Mehta Fourth year Undergraduate student, Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Rance Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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