Is there any way to be able to take an existing partition on the hard drive, and use it in VirtualBox as a virtual machine?
I dual boot Mac OS 10.3.9 and WinXP SP3 with my work laptop, and its just a pain to reboot and switch OSes to test software and drivers updates before putting them mainstream. I would set up a virtual XP machine, but I don't have an ISO of the image. It's all in Norton Ghost format (.gho)...
using Windows bootcamp partition as virtual machine
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Have a look at HOWTO: manage VDIs and import native installations. There's also Howto: Windows XP in VM and native and although that covers a setup from scratch it does illustrate what will be required.
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VT
Regards,
VT
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This capability, although stated to be supported, currently does not work in VBox version 2.02. See past entries in the forum entitled "Using a raw hard disk on Mac OS X" (Around Sept 6) and "Raw disk access in Leopard?" (September 20). There was also a defect ticket written up on this as well (ticket #1461). I'm in hopes that this defect is fixed in the next major release of VBox.
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Not that I am aware of. The fact that it does not work is the result of bugs in the CLI commands. I wish there was a way to move the fix for this higher on the priority list, or at least find out what the time frame is for getting it fixed. But I don't know of any way to do that.
In meantime, I am using a regular Vbox virtual WinXP image with relatively few problems.
In meantime, I am using a regular Vbox virtual WinXP image with relatively few problems.