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David Hummel wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:08 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose-prQxUZoa2zOsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> In fact, I even share the same Linux guest OS, sometimes running it on a
>> Windows host, and sometimes on a Linux one.  (That doesn't work for
>> Windows guests, though, as Win doesn't take kindly to the underlying
>> hardware changing massively from under it.)
> 
> This should work no problem with the same VirtualBox version and
> configuration, and even across minor versions.  I've done this several
> times without issue using a WinXP guest.  In this scenario the
> hardware from the perspective of the guest is the same regardless of
> the guest and the host.  It kind of defeats one of the main purposes
> of virtualization if you can't move the VM around ...

Well, that's Windows for you!

DR






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