VirtualBox

[Dick Dowdell]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 08/05/2014 06:40 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>
>> On 5 August 2014 13:22, Dick Dowdell <dick.dowdell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> VirtualBox does have an advantage over a dual boot installation in that
>>> one
>>> can switch back and forth between OSes without rebooting.  With
>>> hardware-level virtualization, performance is excellent.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Please put your response *below* the text to which you are replying.
>> Gmail supports this just fine; I am using it right now. Press Ctrl-A,
>> trim and then type.
>>
>> VBox is fine for some things, but for others, native bare-metal
>> performance is key. I don't see them as exclusive alternatives; I have
>> a rarely-used copy of Win7 in a native hard disk partition, and the
>> official MS XP Mode VM running under Virtualbox as well (and also
>> rarely-used).
>>
>>
> I have a dual boot setup now, Win7 and Ubuntu 12.04 on separate hard
> drives.  About the only thing I use Win7 for is to run Turbo Tax. It really
> would be more convenient to run it in VBox. I don't have an installation
> disk because Win7 came installed on the machine.
>
> I've googled this in the past and found several sets of complex and
> sometime conflicting instructions.  If someone who has successfully put an
> installed copy of Win7 in VBox would point me at the instructions they
> used, I would appreciate it.
>
> Regards,  Jim
>
>
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Jim,

I haven't done it in a while, but Virtual box will boot a VM from a VHD file
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHD_(file_format)>.  That is of interest
because you can back up your Windows 7 (or Vista) machine to a VHD file.  I
discovered this when I accidentally double-clicked a VHD backup on a
Windows 7 machine with VirtualBox installed.  I do not believe that you can
do this with a Windows 8 machine.

Regards
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