Re: Virtualisation.

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:15:20 GMT, Vahis <waxborg@gmail.com.invalid>
wrote:
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>>>You can also boot an already installed Windows from the real hard disk
>>>without re-installing Windows.[/color]
>>
>> Is this feature available for VirtualBox either ? I didn't find
>> anything like that in the doc. How do you do that ?
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>I don't know if VirtualBox can do it but VMware can:
>
>[url]http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/[/url][/color]

Mmh, in that case we are speaking of importing an existing
installation into the virtual drive, virtualbox can do it too :
[url]http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows[/url]

I had undertood that it was possible to use the VM to boot an OS
physically installed elsewhere, but I probably was misunderstanding
the statement (and in fact, it seems quite difficult to do so, thus
why I was surprised)

In that case, it isn't of a great interest for me, since a guest
system in a VM has not to be as complete as a primary one, since the
most of what I need is already in the host system. For exemple, I dual
boot with XP, but the guest in the VM is not XP but w2k, good enough
for what I need.

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Regards,
Sebas