From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 25 00:03:54 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D82F710656AA for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:03:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C6128FC12 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:03:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9ONdFuB072453 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:39:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9ONdF90033854 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:39:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o9ONdEK1033853; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:39:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:39:14 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Brandon Gooch Message-ID: <20101024233914.GF5644@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4CC48870.80705@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.3 at email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (email2.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:39:15 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 199.67.51.78 Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer Subject: Re: question about virtualbox and windows. X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:03:54 -0000 In the last episode (Oct 24), Brandon Gooch said: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > > If I have a FreeBSD 8 machine with a windows partition that currently > > works. is there a way to boot FreeBSD, start virtualbox and run windows > > from the current functional windows partition.. basically I want to > > switch over to using dual-boot on this machine to permanently running > > BSD with windows as a VM when needed. > > > > Julian > > (I did this many years ago with vmware 1.x but not since). I do the same thing in reverse; I occasionally boot my FreeBSD partition under Virtualbox on Windows. Take a look at the raw disk support: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk You can give your guest full r/w access to your hard drive (a bit tricky since you need to make sure you never mount the same filesystems on both guest and host), or only let the guest see specific fdisk partitions. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com