On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 6, 2009, at 06:21, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > >> Hi, I have a machine that dual-boots (Windows/Vista & ubuntu/Linux). >> Sometimes I need to run the two systems in parallel, so I installed >> Virtualbox on Vista(host) and made a .vmdk of the Linux partition. >> It works. >> Now the question: >> I would like to start the Guest additions on Linux(guest) if and >> only if >> it is running under VirtualBox. >> I dunno what would happen if I try to start them in Linux native. >> Is there a way to do this automatically (something at startup)? >> > Do you ever need to run ubuntu native? > > How do you synchronize data between ubuntu native and > ubuntu virtual? Is it possible to have a native (non-vmdk) > partition accessible alike between native and virtual > ubuntu? Or can the native ubuntu mount the .vmdk?
You cannot detect Virtualization in general/generic way -- i.e. There is no guarantee that every future hypervisor can be detected. Speaking of VirtualBox - yes - it can be detected due to the videocard - just use "lspci | grep -i vga" -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
