how to point already installed Wubi in another partion

[uday610]

Hi,

My machine has windows XP and Ubuntu (Wubi) installed , dual boot system.

Now I have installed virtualbox in windows XP. Now I want to link my ubuntu partion to this virtualbox. How?

In setup "create new virtual machine" there are 2 options , "New" or "Existing". Now in my case this should be existing, now I dont know how to link Ubuntu (already installed) to link as virtual machine in windows XP.

Please help me if you can,

Thanks for your time,

Regards, Uday

[Sasquatch]

You are trying something that nobody has tried before. Wubi installs Ubuntu on your hard drive in an image, but AFAIK, that kind of image is not supported. Easiest and best thing you can do, is install Ubuntu fresh in VB.

[markjreed]

Yes, but then you have two separate Ubuntu installs with no access to each other. The goal is to have a single Ubuntu instance that can be either booted natively or accessed via VB. I know this can be made to work for actual physical partitions, so it seems like something that could be made to work with WUBI's .disk files, too. After all, they look like disk partitions to Ubuntu...

[Sasquatch]

After all, they look like disk partitions to Ubuntu...

To Ubuntu, yes, to VB, no. That's the whole point. VB needs to support that .disk format first and it doesn't atm. You can't use the wubi install with RAW Disk either, because it's not a physical partition or drive, it's just another file.

[aHcVolle]

I know this thread is ~3 years old but is there new info about this subject?

[stefan.becker]

No. WUBI was, is and ever will be a crappy solution.

Its good to test Ubuntu, because you can uninstall it from Windows. But its not a good solution for a permanent Linux Installation.

Best is a clean install in a VDI file.