The way I understand the landscape, my solution would render wubi (which I 
consider a necessary and sometimes convenient aberration) not only 
unnecessary, but downright an inconvenient. 

I use the real MBR to create a "fake" MBR in the "virtual" HD (which is not 
virtual), that boots the VirtualBox machine off of the "bare metal" 
partition. 

As the VM boots, the partition will be unencrypted and available, just like 
in "real life". 

No wubi...   :) 

I'll organize my "cookbook" later on (BEAUTIFUL day, gotta go flying!   :) 
and publish it here.
Stay tuned...
ET 

 

Stephen writes: 

> heh, i am also reading about the idea of wubi being installed/moved
> from its virtual volume to a real volume. but im not sure if i can do
> that as it requires being able to boot and run from its Linux
> operation 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Steve Holmes <steve@holmesgrown.com> wrote:
>> Hey, if you can find that 'cookbook' could you let us know? that
>> sounds like a really cool thing.  How about that linux running on a
>> computer at the public library, eh? 
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:26:02AM -0500, kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote:
>>> I am not sure that I understand the problem, but I have successfully
>>> used a $70, 250GB USB HD to boot a M$ laptop on Linux, and then run
>>> the native WinXP or Win7 OS inside VirtualBox. 
>>>
>>> I LOVE IT!!!   8)
>>> I can shutdown the laptop, pull the USB HD, boot the native Wincrap
>>> and there is no trace (other than the VirtualBox guest additions
>>> installation) left behind. 
>>>
>>> I even have a cookbook to accomplish this.
>>> Somewhere...   :)
>>> ET 
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>> Stephen writes: 
>>>
>>> >I have a laptop at work that is horribly gimped with xp 32 bit.
>>> >
>>> >I can boot wubi but the drive is encrypted with mcafee endpoint encryption
>>> >so it cannot acess its disk volume past boot.
>>> >
>>> >So aside from an expensive ec ssd or an expensive thumb drive that's out. I
>>> >so have a ian hdd but it's weird and I can't boot from it.
>>> >
>>> >Im looking for options that I can ramdisk as I have 4gb of ram or get funky
>>> >useing the ian hdd for persistant data.
>>> >
>>> >I have not yet tried to use the ian hdd for the wubi file as its a slow
>>> >drive.
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