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Using a pre-installed Windows XP
Posted: 11. Jun 2008, 16:19
by tsferreira
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
Posted: 12. Jun 2008, 11:14
by frank
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.
Using a pre-installed Windows XP
Posted: 12. Jun 2008, 14:29
by tsferreira
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]