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Subject: question about virtualbox and windows.
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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).