On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Boris Epstein <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello fellow VBoxers, > > Here's what I am thinking. Let's say I order and receive any modern Windows > machine. It comes with the OS installed but with no install media, as is the > norm these days. > > Let us say I want to run several VM's on that machine instead of just one. > So I could install VirtualBox under Windows and be on my way - but I don't > like using Windows as the underlying (host) OS due to its relatively slow > performance and potential security issues. So I am wondering if it is > possible to, say, install Linux, compress the NTFS file systems housing > Windows and then run Linux and run VirtualBox under Linux and within that > VirtualBox environment to run Windows as a guest VM. ANd if that is possible > - then how does one do that? >
VBox *can* access your physical HDD directly. But what you ask is not supported. Read: "9.8.1. Using a raw host hard disk from a guest" WARNING: This is not possible, because accessing to real filesystem (NTFS/ext4/...) both from host and guest at the same time will destroy your FS. IMO You should look for a different way: "VMlite Vboot" or "Microsoft boot from VHD". No guarantess. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
