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I am new to virtualbox so I have lots of questions.
Since I will need to run both win7 and linux for different tools, etc, I would like to get a laptop to run both and switch quickly between the two OS'es. Does anyone have experience with the following scenerio?

Would like to have a primary boot in win7, and have a virtual Fedora running concurrently so I can work in both environments without having to reboot all the time. Since I would like to put this on a laptop and not worry as much, I'd like to have a 256GB SSD which I partition such that Fedora can mount the win7 partition (which I have done with a networked pair of XP & Fedora 8 boxes, so assume this can work with virtualized Fedora as well?)

Is this realistic?
Does virtualbox allow the same as I used to do when I (think I) ran Citrix to get at a unix session on a PC (at an old employer)?

Can the win7 mount the Fedora partition as well?

Where can I read dream results or horror stories of those trying to do this?

thanks for steering me in the right direction, or to the right forum.

Well, mounting the whole Windows drive/partition in Fedora is not advised. You can access the Windows Host only in two ways: Shared Folders or Samba (default Windows share) without too much trouble. You can do the same the other way around with just Samba (access Guest files from Host). You do need to read and understand the various network options VB offers, especially the limitations each gives. Chapter 6 of the User Manual explains it all.