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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