From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 24 20:12:26 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 AE043106566B; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:12:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CDB38FC1F; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:12:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb24 with SMTP id 24so2599827wwb.31 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:12:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=lAwQ0w8P8SeKHuG9SphQKeG2wj4T4ea6TlxZsDUnsO8=; b=MEdcqAMXQuaPKXEzkFSvRAHSiyXD/88CoP/XobSmKR9NYMT28TALJ6jmZHeXCOkmbW R6IoCRjkaQthGkH9ZE8p6L9Po8PZIW3yQ/YBDgLu5S7SmmLtvqVTWets8IF6MBBRCDja MTQs+dEbRiN3XgCvxc/RbptVb5jLLdms2CBe0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=De7OWU1grB0TgVnLX6RMWVRxnSvr8+kLR7JwzkeVDIieq25m789RvewjWYN9dZte5Y c+4/hCJuLIawc2/r4Vg90A9n7RuV/SWbvuWcvqNGkc80b9PUZgBLJlAu1+VERQYR8HO4 tmQ/hCe86NqhLTjUWAv8IN1n4kiucTNsLM2Mk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.235.41 with SMTP id t41mr2058609weq.55.1287951143649; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:12:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.55.135 with HTTP; Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:12:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4CC48870.80705@freebsd.org> References: <4CC48870.80705@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:12:23 -0500 Message-ID: From: Brandon Gooch To: Julian Elischer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org 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: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:12:26 -0000 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). > 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... -Brandon