On Tuesday 29 January 2008, 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.
Really? How? (Unless teh KVM driver lets me do stuff that no man has done before--OK parallels can do this on an Intel-Mac). The hardware emulated by Qemu would not be that of your native XP installation. This is very problematic for any Windows. Debian stock kernel images, for example, should run on most any hardware for the same chip architecture (i386, etc). > > 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. Disk images are used because they are an independent XP installation for Qemu's or VBox's emulated hardware. Qemu is better for Windows simply because it presents known HW for which Windows has drivers. VBox supplies its own as part of those "guest additions" (sorry, none for Win98). > > Am I right that this doesn't work, so that I cannot use VirtualBox for this > purpose at all? Correct. We all would love to do it but at best, it would kill your native XP requiring reinstallation of real HW (and maybe restoring registry and ini-files entries!) on next XP bootup, at worse, well ... _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
