VirtualBox

[Jim Byrnes]

On 08/05/2014 03:34 PM, Bill Stanley wrote:
> On 08/05/2014 11:14 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
> WS=> Be careful here!  If it is like my HP laptop, the restore partition
> restores the ENTIRE hard drive to the original state.  All of the
> partitions (including the Linux partitions) were overwritten.  I might
> have chosen the wrong options but this is what happened to me.  Luckily,
> I backed up ALL the partitions before taking this drastic step so I last
> no data, but I did lose a lot of time.  I don't know if other
> manufacturers are like this.
>
> Word to the wise.  BACKUP EVERYTHING!
>

Bill,

Thanks for the heads up.

Regards,  Jim