I use Virtual Box to run XP and Windows 7 release Candidate. Both work as well as Windows ever does. Vista was a nightmare to get the hardware going and as I was only running it to get acquainted with what some of my end users experience... I promptly dumped it. I did have it running, and had it networked but never did get the audio or USB right. All I did was take an .iso of the install disk and use that has my initial CD drive. I had no need to mess with the secondary hardware profile, but maybe thats why audio and USB did not port. Let me know how it goes! -Chris <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <<a href="mailto:greg@freephile.com">greg@freephile.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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. 狢 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. 狢 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. 狢t also looks like it supports using what they call 'raw access' to the existing disk. <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#rawdisk" target="_blank">http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#rawdisk</a> 狢t 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. 狢'm wondering if anyone has had success doing this, and has any pointers to offer. 狢've seen threads like <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=984437&highlight=vista+virtualbox&page=6" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=984437&highlight=vista+virtualbox&page=6</a> 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. -- Greg Rundlett Web Developer - Initiative in Innovative Computing <a href="http://iic.harvard.edu" target="_blank">http://iic.harvard.edu</a> camb 617-384-5872 nbpt 978-225-8302 m. 978-764-4424 -skype/aim/irc/twitter freephile <a href="http://profiles.aim.com/freephile" target="_blank">http://profiles.aim.com/freephile</a> -- Ubuntu-us-ma mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-ma@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-ma@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ma" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ma</a> </blockquote></div>