Real WinXP partition running under VirtualBox... (answer)

[Stephen]

i would love to see a link to those "fine grained instructions" you
had found. i find this an interesting project.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:04 PM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com
<kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
> Hello PLUG!
>
> Sometime ago I asked how to run a "hard" WinXP partition under VirtualBox.
> Well, it ain't so difficult...   :)
>
> This is what I did: (fine-grain steps are described elsewhere in the WEB)
>
> Before shutting down Windoze, I created a new "profile".
>
> I installed Kubuntu 9.10 in a flash-drive and, of course, installed
> VirtualBox.
>
> Then I booted from the "stick", started VBox, created a hard-drive for the
> physical WinXP partition using commands available in the "User's manual"
> (RTFM?!?!?!) and created a machine for XP attached to that drive.
>
> Finally I booted WinXP in VBox, chose my "virtual" profile, installed
> drivers and guest additions and now the XP machine is just an afterthought
> where I get emails and IMs while working (secretly ;-) in my Linux
> machine...   :)
>
> I can also pull the stick and boot the machine from its normal boot record
> and the only trace left is the profile and the guest additions (which were
> not really needed)
>
> WinXP performance sucks, but I hardly use that machine anyway...
>
> I like it!   8)
> THANKS!!!   :)
> ET
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Stephen