Virtualization

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 7:49 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
>  From what I have read, you cannot port an existing win instance into a
> virtual.

Not entirely true, for a while I had my original XP partition booting
in VirtualBox using a raw partition VMDK[1]. I used separate hardware
profiles so I could boot XP natively or in virtual without issue.

Richard

[1] http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk