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Basically, much has been discussed on this. I have been running Virtualbox on my Ubuntu laptop for over a year with Windows Xp and Fedora 10 as guest OSs'. The bottom line is that vbox works well. The only real issues I've found is that I can't sync my Blackberry, but It does see the Blackberry disk. I just saw an update come down on the Ubuntu automatic updates. You would have to add the virtualbox repository to Ubuntu, but that is trivial. On 06/01/2009 11:11 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > I'm new to virtualization, and want to find a solution to run my > existing (from the factory) installation of Windows Vista as a guest > in my Ubuntu host. I have Ubuntu installed. > > I basically want to run Ubuntu (Jaunty Jackalope) as the VirtualBox > host, and be able to seamlessly run Windows Vista as a guest -- using > the pre-installed OS. I have the install media, but I don't want to > go through the bother to re-install and re-partition if not necessary. > > It looks like VirtualBox is a good solution for free and open source > virtualization. It also looks like it supports using what they call > 'raw access' to the existing disk. > http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#rawdisk It seems > like one important part is to setup a second hardware profile (in > Vista), however it also seems that hardware profiles are only > supported in XP, not Vista. I'm wondering if anyone has had success > doing this, and has any pointers to offer. I've seen threads like > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=3D984437&highlight=3Dvista+vir= tualbox&page=3D6 > and language like "Remove anything not necessary, some trial and error > may be required if you are not sure what you need" makes me leary to > try it. > > > =20 --=20 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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