On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Olive wrote: > Gunter Ohrner wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm currently experimenting with a Windows XP installation in a primary > > partition of my harddisk which I'm able to boot natively and using qemu / > > kvm from within a Linux host. > > > > As Virtualbox is supposed to have better USB support than qemu, I wanted > > to try it out but I cannot find a way to provide my physical disk as a > > "disk image" to the simulated machine. > > This is possible, see page 105 of the manual: > > http://www.virtualbox.org/download/UserManual.pdf > This is making a vmware style disk image based on the native installation. Most probably, will need to install the different hardware/guest additions afterwards. This should NOT write to your original XP, I don't think!
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