hey everyone, newbie here so please forgive any obvious things i overlook.
im running OS X on my new MBP and also want 2 run XP.
just wanted to know if VIrtualbox can VM from a bootcamp partition? like if i create the boot camp partition so i can run XP natively and then run the virtual machine from there, copying files between osx and xp like other VMs?
cheers
GuptRX
VMing XP
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GuptRX
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- Primary OS: Mac OS X Leopard
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- Guest OSses: XP
Re: VMing XP
also with the bootcamp can i run XP Pro 64bit edition? or only 32?
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chip
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- Primary OS: Ubuntu other
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- Guest OSses: Windows
- Location: Ontario
Re: VMing XP
What you want to do is set VirtualBox up to use a raw disk. It was covered in this thread: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9223
Tip: if you're going to be running an NTFS partition for your Windows guest, you'll need to install MacFuse+NTFS-3g. This may be tricky if you don't know what you're doing, so you might be better off using FAT32 (although your max file size with fat32 is 2GB).
Tip: if you're going to be running an NTFS partition for your Windows guest, you'll need to install MacFuse+NTFS-3g. This may be tricky if you don't know what you're doing, so you might be better off using FAT32 (although your max file size with fat32 is 2GB).
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OSX@Linux
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Re: VMing XP
I've just gotten VirtualBox to boot off of my Boot Camp Partition. If anyone wants details then please ask. I need to write up how i did it 
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OSX@Linux
- Posts: 28
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- Primary OS: Mac OS X Leopard
- VBox Version: PUEL
- Guest OSses: Windows XP
- Location: San Diego, CA
Re: VMing XP
I'm going to start a new thread for it though