I've done with XP and 7.
I haven't had the pleasure of dealing with 10 yet.
I have also resized the Win partition and installed Linux along, then ran
the Window$ partition from the bare metal inside Virtualbox.
I could also boot Window$ bare-metal.
I have a cookbook about it somewhere.
The lion's share of the time is moving gigabytes from here to there,
everything else is rather trivial and quick.
ET
David Schwartz writes:
> I have an odd question … suppose I wanted to take a fairly vanilla Windows computer with Win 7 ... 10 on it, like your typical Dell or Lenovo or Asus laptop or desktop; suck that OS install with all the apps into a VirtualBox VM; copy that VM off to a backup drive; fully reformat the HDD and install some friendly version of Linux; and finally load up VirtualBox and then the VM and make the VM work so it looked and acted virtually identical to how it did before.
>
> So, I’m not asking HOW to do this … I wouldn’t have much trouble doing it myself.
>
> What I’m wondering is if there are any resources around that would explain how an average person could do it without much trouble? Videos, books, eBooks, tutorials, whatever.
>
> Also, for anybody who’s been through this process, how long did it take? Or how long would you expect it to take based on similar experiences?
>
> -David Schwartz
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