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2012-10-02 12:38 28002530 Anonymous (eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.png 320x312 174kB)
guys can I use Virtualbox to run an existing linux installation in a vm?

6 min later 28002572 Anonymous
>>28002530 What do you mean by "existing", already installed on hdd? Sure, but you have to copy the data to virtualbox.

7 min later 28002580 Anonymous
>>28002530 Yes. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Running_a_VirtualBox_Guest_from_a_Real_Partition

9 min later 28002601 Anonymous
>VirtualBox >Not using VMware Workstation

49 min later 28003000 Anonymous
>>28002530 op is a shitcunt on this thread. >>28000508 I don't know how to cross-thread. sorry

50 min later 28003025 Anonymous
>>28003000 read near the end. all that retard is op.

53 min later 28003061 Anonymous
of course you can, i used to do this when dual booting with windows, since linux is the only system that can operate my raid

54 min later 28003075 Anonymous
>>28002572 >but you have to copy the data to virtualbox. wrong

56 min later 28003102 Anonymous
>>28003061 >>28003075 links please

56 min later 28003110 Anonymous
>>28003102 links to what? i didn't need a tutorial to do that

59 min later 28003146 Anonymous
>>28003110 the wrong thing. surely there must be some form of documentation for this magical function.

1 hours later 28003165 Anonymous
>>28003146 magical? all i did was attach the appropriate drives to a vm and boot it up

1 hours later 28003193 Anonymous
>>28003165 Op is just retarded.

1 hours later 28003216 Anonymous
>>28003165 you attached a physical drive to a VM? wait, was this using the create a vmdk command from virtual box cli

1 hours later 28003234 Anonymous (arch.jpg 1920x1080 529kB)
>>28003216 here, i did a sshot for you this is showing my real system bootloader (can't boot fully as this is the only os on here right now and i'm kinda using it right now)

1 hours later 28003280 Anonymous
>>28003234 yeah. thats what I was talking about. my mistake.sorry

1 hours later 28003322 Anonymous
>>28003280 in windows, your hdd (rawdisk) is written by its ntobj name (ex. \\.\PhysicalDisk0 , this is case sensitive) to get the physical disk number (0), go into disk management and look at the disk number (Disk 0/Disk 1, etc), this is the same as the PhysicalDisk number VBoxManage.exe is in the program files directory, navigate here in cmd before running the command (since windows doesn't put programs in path, which is a bit dumb)

1 hours later 28003692 Anonymous
>>28003322 guess i wasn't helpful

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