create a boot-able disk from an iso file

[Bill Stanley]

On 01/11/2011 01:59 AM, Gilles Gravier wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 11/01/2011 07:51, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 11/01/2011 16:45, Bill Stanley wrote:
>>
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>> [pruned]
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>>> I know all this already...  Luckily, I was able to download a version
>>> of Win XP where the DRM stuff was disabled.
>>
>> I suspect that you *really* mean WPA and not DRM, right?
> Newbie confusion on his side, most likely... Doesn't really know what he
> is talking about...

This thread might seem confusing but I am a newbie only to VirtualBox. 
I have been using computers since the early 1980's.  I have been using 
Linux on and off since the late 1990's.  I have never gotten a virus 
because I am aware of the risks, that is why I use Linux to access the 
Internet.   By the way, although my area of study is very narrow 
(software debugging, testing and verification) I have an advanced degree 
in that area.  Granted, I might be a VirtualBox newbie but I am far from 
being a newbie to computers.

>>>    I have to observe the VM carefully since I know that is is a
>>> cracked version.
>>
>> Oh boy, I think that you are playing with fire ol' boy.
>>
>> You don't seem to know the difference between VB and VM.
>>
>> Do you mean VM as in what you stated in one of your first posts to
>> mean *Virtual* *Box* (VB), which comes with Ubuntu and for which there
>> is no need for a "crack",  or VM as in IBM's VM or VMWare's VM cracked
>> version which may be found if one looks?
> I suspect he is running a cracked virtual machine inside virtual box. In
> which case the term "cracked version" for the "VM" is somewhat correct.
> Though I would say that the virtual machine is running a cracked guest
> operating system image... But he gets the point across. What he is doing
> isn't legitimate. :)
>>
>> You sound like the posts from a person my wife came across a while
>> back: that person quite openly posted in a public forum that she
>> copies DVDs and sends them out to her friends so that they can discuss
>> the fillums during their "fillum nights".
> Yep. And he is posting all this on a somewhat public mailing list that
> is archived. Convenient for lots of copyright enforcement people out
> there. :DSheesh.....You can disable both in a normal installation of
> Windows XP any way.....
>>>    This makes it really dangerous as a stand alone OS but for a VM
>>> (particularly for home use) it seems OK.  Only time will tell.
>>
>> Hrumph.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> (You're really kinda 'stumbling in the dark' about this whole thing
>> aren't you? :-( )
>>
> Stumbling in the dark, yes... next to a very steep and high cliff...
> kind of fun to read here. Definitely made my morning smile. :)
>
> Gilles.

Bill Stanley