Hello, I've successfully installed several virtual machines, now, all under Windows 7. Simple installation goes well; I'm using my opensuse 13.1 installation regularly without issue.
I have a 1TB disk in a Samsung NP700Z7C laptop; I divided the disk into two 500G partitions, one using the Windows files system, the other using ext2 for linux. W7 runs fine in its partition; suse runs fine in its partition (dual-boot configuration). I really like being able to switch between OS's instantly, without rebooting. Unfortunately, VB doesn't let me choose which partition to create a VM in. Using ext2fsd I can read the linux partition with both W7 and the suse VM. The suse VM has only 20G size, which is not a big deal because I can just use the 500G linux partition for non-system files, but it's a pain to have to start up the VM manually each time I have to reboot W7. I've read the manual about installing VM's in external partitions and especially foreign file systems; I'm not expert enough to feel comfortable pushing through the risks listed in the manual. Or is the problem only with foreign files systems? If I reformat the linux partition for W7, will W7 then let me choose where to put my VM's? or, is there a way to be sure my linux machines are using the linux partition directly, without the double conversion from ext2 to W7 to ext2 and back? is there something else I could do to get a more natural setup? Thanks, john perry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
