Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:06:25 -0700 From: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@mittelstaedt.us> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about virtualbox and windows. Message-ID: <4CC52C71.2070408@mittelstaedt.us> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=rJFOqexunVWiXVRTRNw9xvwCyrRU5rJD4BKuO@mail.gmail.com> References: <4CC48870.80705@freebsd.org> <AANLkTi=rJFOqexunVWiXVRTRNw9xvwCyrRU5rJD4BKuO@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/24/2010 1:12 PM, Brandon Gooch wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Julian Elischer<julian@freebsd.org> 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). >> > > Though I've not tried any of the setups, there are several how-tos in > the VirtualBox forums explaining how to do just that sort of thing: > > http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewforum.php?f=28 > > I'm preparing to do essentially the same thing with several machines > at work, so I've looked through the Windows 7 and XP instructions; > doesn't seem too difficult, but good luck nevertheless... > Another "quick hack" way to do this is to run VMWare's converter Then run qemu-img convert vmwareimage.vmdk image.bin VBoxManage convertdd image.bin image.vdi Here's the ideas: http://www.petri.co.il/virtual_convert_physical_machines_to_virtual_machines_with_vmware_converter_2.htm http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-convert-vmware-image-to-virtualbox-image.html One thing about this if it works for you is the vmware converter takes care of all the ickyness of substituting the vmware device drivers in windows for the physical hardware drivers. If you try the run-from-partition way although it can be made to work even the authors of this hack caution against using it long term Ted > -Brandon > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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