Run my windows dual-boot install in a window in f17

[Matt Morgan]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 25. July 2012. 22.21.14 Claude Jones wrote:
> > On 07/25/2012 10:01 PM, Matt Morgan wrote:
> > > I have Windows actually installed on a separate partition. Can I run it
> > > from inside Linux somehow? That is, without rebooting into Windows. I
> > > looked at VirtualBox and Virtual Machine Manager (I'm completely new to
> > > them) but it wasn't obvious that they could use a real installation of
> > > Windows.
> >
> > You can't run your existing Windows installation 'inside Linux' as you
> > ask.
>
> On the contrary, yes it can be done. Basically, you point VirtualBox to
> your
> physical partition which contains Windows, and let it boot from that.
>
> The only problem is that virtual hardware detected by Windows will be
> different
> from the host hardware it was installed on, and Windows will not like
> that, so
> some extra steps need to be done (creating another hardware profile in
> Windows,
> etc.). The OP should read all the details and caveats in the VirtualBox
> documentation.
>
> Also, I've done this only with Windows XP, don't know if other versions are
> supported or not. The OP didn't specify which Windows he is running. In
> addition, there might or might not be architecture-based problems,
> depending
> on the 32/64bit installations of Windows, Linux and VirtualBox.
>
> HTH, :-)
> Marko


Thanks to all who responded! Wine is great but not in this case, for
various reasons. And I can't probably reinstall from inside VirtualBox, as
this is just the version of Windows XP that came pre-installed (OEM, that
is) on the computer. So I'll give it a try, the hard way!
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