<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Jim Byrnes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jf_byrnes@comcast.net" target="_blank">jf_byrnes@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On 08/05/2014 06:40 AM, Liam Proven wrote:<br>
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On 5 August 2014 13:22, Dick Dowdell <<a href="mailto:dick.dowdell@gmail.com" target="_blank">dick.dowdell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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VirtualBox does have an advantage over a dual boot installation in that one<br>
can switch back and forth between OSes without rebooting. With<br>
hardware-level virtualization, performance is excellent.<br>
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Please put your response *below* the text to which you are replying.<br>
Gmail supports this just fine; I am using it right now. Press Ctrl-A,<br>
trim and then type.<br>
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VBox is fine for some things, but for others, native bare-metal<br>
performance is key. I don't see them as exclusive alternatives; I have<br>
a rarely-used copy of Win7 in a native hard disk partition, and the<br>
official MS XP Mode VM running under Virtualbox as well (and also<br>
rarely-used).<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Regards, Jim<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Jim,
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I haven't done it in a while, but Virtual box will boot a VM from a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHD_(file_format)">VHD file</a>. 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.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regards</div></div>