I'm working on something similar right now.
If you have another linux machine to temporarily house the data you
should be able to use dd to make a raw disk image of your existing
windows install. It will be the same size as your hard drive....i.e.
400GB HD = 400GB raw disk image. Then convert the disk image to the
right format using the "VBoxManage" command included with VirtualBox|:
VBoxManage convertdd file.img file.vdi|
Now you have a .vdi file that you can use to create your virtual machine.
*I have NOT done this with virtualbox, but I have done it several times
with KVM. The process is the almost the same. When the original
physical machine is liunx, they have so far booted right up every time
in the virtual environment with no apparent problem. With Windows it
has gone both ways, sometimes they boot up, sometimes they go straight
to blue screen of death.....so definitely test before you go and wipe
out the original machine.
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?
Thanks.
Boris.
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