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

[Stephen]

Spiffy, i had a limited dislike of virtualbox under windows, but under
Linux and being able to run this makes a whole new interest for me.

this will be interesting to see system performance as my windows
partition is on a Intel on-board raid (wish *buntu 9.10 can see and
read!)

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:33 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com
<kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
> Believe me, if _I_ can do it, it is not _THAT_ complicated...   :)
>
> The 2 key points are:
> 1.- Create your profile in windoze (valid for XP, Vista is another ball of
> wax and 7 is utterly unknown to me)
>
> 2.- Create the disk for VBox pointing to the windoze partition *NOT* the
> entire hard drive (unless you have toes of Titanium).
>
> Even though I found links with "most" of the instructions, most everything
> was scattered all over the place and I didn't save the links.
>
> I ran a quick search and found a few:
> http://dotneverland.blogspot.com/2008/08/running-your-physical-windows-xp.ht
> ml
>
> There are too many variants as to point to a single page.  Many will talk
> about users and permissions that you better don't follow blindly.  I had to
> include the group "disk" to my user so I could access the  partition.
> Ugly, I know, but you hack what you have to hack...   ;-)
> ET
>
> PS: Use dogpile.com for searches...
>
>
>
>
> Stephen writes:
>
>> 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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>>
>>
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>>
>> Stephen
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A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen