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mmurfin87 is offline mmurfin87
2009-12-24 , 20:59
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Hi,

I suddenly had a curious idea today and searching google didn't show any good results. Plus its the holidays so I'm away from my desktop where I could try this out on my own.

I have a computer with Windows 7 and Linux/KDE installed in a dual boot configuration. I'm wondering if its possible to call up the Linux/KDE install in a virtual machine inside Windows 7. I'm not talking about installing a second Linux/KDE (so third os on system) into a virtual machine, I'm talking about using virtual machine software to boot the already existing second OS up inside the first OS.

Anybody have any opinions/experiences/suggestions?

Thanks.
 
fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2009-12-24 , 22:13
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VMware and Virtualbox both support this I believe. When You go to add a hard drive add a physical disk partition and point it to the the partition that Linux is on.

*should* work.. I think.
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born2wonder is offline born2wonder
2009-12-24 , 22:25
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In virtualbox, its not that straight forward but possible.

http://virtualization.sysprobs.com/a...ation-software
 
fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2009-12-24 , 22:50
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Originally Posted by born2wonder View Post
In virtualbox, its not that straight forward but possible.

http://virtualization.sysprobs.com/a...ation-software
Odd.. could have swore I saw the option in the latest VBox I had... I'm not home though, can't check.

Good article.
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kitwalker is offline kitwalker
2012-06-08 , 10:48
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Sorry for rekindling an old thread was just going through this, but it is possible using coLinux or qemu.
 
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