virtualization -- how do I use an existing windows installation ?

[Joachim Backes]

On 11/03/2009 07:24 AM, steve wrote:
> 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
>

Hi Steve,

did you check

	http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows

-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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