VirtualBox

[Dick Dowdell]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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Jim,

It occurs to me that many Windows machines sold without installation media
have the tools to create an installation disk from a hidden partition on
the hard drive.  Have you explored this alternative?

Regards
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