Hi Everyone.
I'm looking for instructions on how to best go about the following. I want to run WinXP in VirtualBox under Ubuntu most of the time with the option to real boot it to play video games. I have been reading the documentation about raw disk access and I think virtualbox is capable but I have not tried this kind of thing before.
System contains 3 hard disks. 1+2 in software raid mirror with Ubuntu and 3rd for windows. This is what I came up with as a plan:
1) Format 3rd disk using Fat32 (better for interacting with linux than NTFS?), install WinXP
2) Install Ubuntu on the disk 1+2 with software mirroring. Use Grub to dual boot with windows.
3) Install VirtualBox in Ubuntu and create the special image file for raw disk access pointing to my windows disk.
Anyone else here try this? Any caveats I should be expecting. Too bad virtual box does not offer 3d support like parallels on mac or I would be running it. Does anyone know if there is any other virtualization software for linux that does support 3d good enough for games like parallels?. Also I do not want to go the CEDEGA/Wine route for games as its buggy.
Thanks alot!
- V