In your position, I would have installed windows 7 into a virtual
machine first, if I wanted to be able to use 2 os at the same time.
Next best thing you can do, is to make use of the VMware converter, and
convert your windows 7 install into a virtual machine, and then import
that VM into either VMware, or virtual box. (virtual box is a personal
favourite, because it runs on OSX, Linux, and windows, oh, and it's open
source!) I use this on all my hardware
-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
bounces(a)redhat.com] On Behalf Of steve
Sent: 03 November 2009 06:24
To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora.
Subject: virtualization -- how do I use an existing windows
installation ?
Hi,
I recently installed windows 7 on my laptop, on a separate partition,
making it
dual boot. Now, I would like to boot into this installation without
having to
reboot. A casual google shows me that one can in fact boot off an
existing
physical partition using any of the commonly available virtualization
tools on
linux -- qemu, VirtualBox & VMPlayer.
So my question is, has anyone tried doing this and what were your
experiences if
you did ?
I am not averse to the idea of simply reinstalling windows 7 in a
'proper'
virtual environment, but just curious whether reusing the existing
installation
is easily doable. I would be using the windows installation just to
test
portability of code that i write. I don't really need to boot into it
often,
neither do i expect it to be lightning fast.
cheers,
- steve
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http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/
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