Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:12:23 -0500 From: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about virtualbox and windows. Message-ID: <AANLkTi=rJFOqexunVWiXVRTRNw9xvwCyrRU5rJD4BKuO@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CC48870.80705@freebsd.org> References: <4CC48870.80705@freebsd.org>
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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... -Brandon
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