VirtualBox Ubuntu host with existing Vista

[darose-prQxUZoa2zOsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org (David Rosenstrauch)]

On Tue, June 2, 2009 6:29 am, jbk wrote:
> I came across a thread on the VBox user group site that went
> in to some detail describing how to do what you want. The
> computer with the link to it is not here so I can't forward
> it now. One method described was to use clonezilla to make a
> copy of the running OS and then copy into a VDI that you
> created with Vbox. There are a number of steps that must be
> taken before you do the clone such as setting video to basic
> vga, disable networking etc. You have to get the source OS
> operating with generic drivers before you clone it. Any
> applications that depend on the specific hardware will have
> to be dummed down to generic drivers also.
> Well I hope googling gets you to the thread. I don't
> remember if you could use the installed OS directly.
>
> Jim KR

Please do post a link, if you wouldn't mind.  I've not been able to get
mine to work and I'd really like to.

DR