Using a pre-installed Windows XP

tsferreira · Post by **tsferreira** » 11. Jun 2008, 16:19

I am a complete newbie to VirtualBox, so that my question may be completely stupid! Is it possible to use an already installed Windows XP -- it resides in its own partition, separate from the Linux host?

-- tsferreira

Post by **frank** » 12. Jun 2008, 11:14

Check the user manual section 9.9 and the FAQ about migrating windows. You might also try to change the DMI data which is visible to the guest (section 9.13) to prevent reactivation of your guest Windows. Though I didn't try the latter yet.

tsferreira · Post by **tsferreira** » 12. Jun 2008, 14:29

I used the command :

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename .VirtualBox/Machines/winxpsdb1 -rawdisk /dev/sdb -partitions 1 -relative -register

but I got:

Error opening the raw disk: VERR_ACCESS_DENIED[/quote]