On 2016-03-07, Levi Darrell <levidarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > --001a1141fc9a8f98e7052d796452 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Has anybody had any luck using VBox to install a second system to a > dedicated partition on the host system, rather than a dynamically allocated > virtual hard disk? The reason I want to do this is that my computer has two > drives, a 120 GB SSD to which I have my host Debian system installed, and a > 1 TB HDD. As much as I dislike it, I occasionally have to use Windows. I > have Debian installed on the SSD because it is much faster that way. > However, I don't want Windows to use any space on the SSD because space > there is limited. I could install Windows directly to the HDD, but I don't > want to do this because I already have an LFS system installed to the first > partition of that drive, and Windows will only install to the first > partition of a drive. I'd have to move things around in order to get that > to work. Secondly, I don't want to have to boot in and out of my Debian > system every time I need to use Windows for something. I want to be able to > use Windows through VBoxHeadless in a shell console, and then be able to > switch between shell consoles from Debian to Windows. > > I installed VirtualBox version 5.0.16 from the VBox website, using the .run > file. I tried installing the .deb package first, but the installation > wouldn't complete because it wanted me to install packages that are no > longer in the repository. The .run installation completed successfully. I > successfully installed the extension pack. I was able to install both > Windows 10 and Windows 7 to a regular virtual hard disk on /dev/sda using > VBox. Everything is working fine. However, I can't get VBox to install the > machine to /dev/sdb4, which is where I want to install the system.
[...] Can you not create a file system on /dev/sbd4, mount it, and configure VirtualBox to use the mount point as its default machine folder? Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't understand the need to install to a raw disk. -- Liam
