On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Olive wrote: > > 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! > > Yes it is. If you follow the procedure described page 105, the > vmware-style image will not be copy of your original partition, it is > simply a small file that refer to the original partition. If you use > such a image, the virtual machine will read/write to the original > physical disk (you have also the option to filter access according to > partition number, although it has bugs). > > I use this feature to boot my linux partition alternatively under XP and > on real (Linux can be more easily than Windows be configured to run on > different hardware). > OK, I stand corrected on this, but as above, most linux distros will boot up fine on differing hardware unless one compiles a lean and mean kernel to be very specific. Not so Windows so doing this will be dangerous to some degree.
Parallels on an Intel-Mac can do it because both OS's see the same hardware. I would love a virtualization that would present the "real" hardware configuration. The best would be arbitration between host and guest but more likely, the emulation would present it but remain a "buffer" between the guest and the host. I believe that Qemu can run an alternative kernel image in certain formats directly. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
