[SOLVED] Boot physical Hard Drive Image

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rhughes
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[SOLVED] Boot physical Hard Drive Image

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Hello

I have googled this and searched this forum, but couldn't find the answer.

My machine has two harddrives, one with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and the other with Windows 7 x64.

I would like to be able to run Virtual Box on my Windows harddrive and use it to run the Linux install on the other. This is because sometimes I need to use Windows, but would also like to still be able to use the Linux install as well. I do also boot into the Linux install at times too.

Is this possible?

Thank you very much for your help,

Richard Hughes
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Re: Boot physical Hard Drive Image

Post by Perryg »

It's in the VirtualBox manual
Read the warnings carefully. Since this is for expert users only it is not for everyone.
rhughes
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Re: Boot physical Hard Drive Image

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I see, I'll look into it.

Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it!
Barbados
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Re: [SOLVED] Boot physical Hard Drive Image

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VBoxSDL is currently primarily used internally for debugging VirtualBox and therefore not officially supported
I am confused. Will anyone explain this part of the manual for me?
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Re: [SOLVED] Boot physical Hard Drive Image

Post by socratis »

Barbados wrote:Will anyone explain this part of the manual for me?
I could. If you could explain why on earth you posted a question about VBoxSDL in a topic that has absolutely nothing to do with VBoxSDL.
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