VirtualBox

[Jim Byrnes]

On 08/05/2014 10:05 AM, Dick Dowdell wrote:
> 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
>
>
>

Dick,

I don't know enough about Windows to realize that this possibility 
existed.  It is an HP desktop so I will certainly check this out.

Thanks,  Jim