Using existing OS as guest
Posted: 17. Jan 2011, 12:01
I've seen some posts that touch on this subject, but are either different in some respect or too technical for the merely, barely competent.
I'm running RouterOS (a Linux-based networking utility) on its own hard-drive in a network gateway computer - an ancient PC. I'm looking to upgrade the gateway to a proper server running Ubuntu 10.04 server to provide RADIUS, mail and some administrative functions but it would be useful to also have RouterOS running to provide some advanced routing, filtering and network functions.
I have a version of RouterOS running well in a VirtualBox on the Ubuntu Server as an experiment but wonder if it's possible to simply install the existing RouterOS (IDE) hard-drive in the server and boot it into a VirtualBox, rather than shifting a whole tried and trusted configuration to a new VM.
I'm running RouterOS (a Linux-based networking utility) on its own hard-drive in a network gateway computer - an ancient PC. I'm looking to upgrade the gateway to a proper server running Ubuntu 10.04 server to provide RADIUS, mail and some administrative functions but it would be useful to also have RouterOS running to provide some advanced routing, filtering and network functions.
I have a version of RouterOS running well in a VirtualBox on the Ubuntu Server as an experiment but wonder if it's possible to simply install the existing RouterOS (IDE) hard-drive in the server and boot it into a VirtualBox, rather than shifting a whole tried and trusted configuration to a new VM.