VirtualBox Ubuntu host with existing Vista

[Jerry Feldman]

Basically, much has been discussed on this. I have been running 
Virtualbox on my Ubuntu laptop for over a year with Windows Xp and 
Fedora 10 as guest OSs'. The bottom line is that vbox works well. The 
only real issues I've found is that I can't sync my Blackberry, but It 
does see the Blackberry disk.  I just saw an update come down on the 
Ubuntu automatic updates. You would have to add the virtualbox 
repository to Ubuntu, but that is trivial.

On 06/01/2009 11:11 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote:
> I'm new to virtualization, and want to find a solution to run my
> existing (from the factory) installation of Windows Vista as a guest
> in my Ubuntu host.  I have Ubuntu installed.
>
> I basically want to run Ubuntu (Jaunty Jackalope) as the VirtualBox
> host, and be able to seamlessly run Windows Vista as a guest -- using
> the pre-installed OS.  I have the install media, but I don't want to
> go through the bother to re-install and re-partition if not necessary.
>
> It looks like VirtualBox is a good solution for free and open source
> virtualization.  It also looks like it supports using what they call
> 'raw access' to the existing disk.
> http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#rawdisk  It seems
> like one important part is to setup a second hardware profile (in
> Vista), however it also seems that hardware profiles are only
> supported in XP, not Vista.  I'm wondering if anyone has had success
> doing this, and has any pointers to offer.  I've seen threads like
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=984437&highlight=vista+virtualbox&page=6
> and language like "Remove anything not necessary, some trial and error
> may be required if you are not sure what you need" makes me leary to
> try it.
>
>
>   


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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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