running windows boot partition in ubuntu

[J]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 04:23, James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com> wrote:
> No you can't run your already installed copy of Windows. Some apps you
> may be able to get running with Wine otherwise VirtualBox is for
> running a virtual machine. You need to read about what a virtual
> machine is and how they work. Also see Xen and Qemu.
>
> You can't use your existing Windows partition unless you can make an
> image out of it and convert it to say a virtual box VDisk (I believe)
> however how feasible this is, is a question beyond me.

According to this you can:
http://virtualization.sysprobs.com/access-physical-disk-virtualbox-desktop-virtualization-software

It's also listed in the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox

>From what I was reading, it's not NOT NOT easy, but at least using
physical media instead of disk images is supposed to be a supported
action in VirtualBox.

And Xen can also use physical disks...

HOWEVER, that being said, to the OP:

You REALLY REALLY run the risk of destroying your Windows installation
by doing this, so YMMV.

Let me repeat that.  YOU CAN DESTROY YOUR WINDOWS INSTALLATION.  Just
throwing that out there because there is a risk of data loss.

Cheers
Jeff
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