VirtualBox

[Jim Byrnes]

On 08/05/2014 09:26 AM, Dick Dowdell wrote:
> 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
>
>
>

Dick,

Thanks for the link.  As soon as I get a little spare time I will see if 
I can get it to work.

Thanks,  Jim