I made an XP VBox in Ubuntu Hardy, and now I want to also set up a dual boot for XP Home on the computer.
I opened up partition manager (GParted) to add a new partition to put windows on, but it only lists my ext3 (Linux) partition and then the extended and swap partitions (also part of Linux, I believe)
I don't fully understand how VBox works, but does it not create a partition for the Virtual machine (I set it up for a dynamic size--is this why)?
I just don't want to accidentally overwrite my VBox partition..
Where is the partition?
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Online User Manual: A must read if you want to know what we're talking about.
Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions
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