On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 09:56:18 PM Jack Coats wrote: > I have a laptop that runs Mint or Win7 nicely. It is set up to dual boot. > > Is there a way to configure virtual box to allow using a 'live disk' > instead of a system image. > > If so, could you point me to a tutorial? > > Thanks in advance... > > ><> ... Jack > > "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... Colossians 3:23 > "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - > Albert Einstein > "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral > Grace Hopper, USN > "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - > Ben Franklin
Absolutely. I have my work laptop setup to boot up to either Windows or Linux and then I can run the other from a VM. It's very interesting. There are a couple of sites, I'll have to dig up that I used to get it figured out. I have my home PC also setup to run Winblows7 that way, I never run windows if I don't have to. :D Look at http://geekery.amhill.net/2010/01/27/Virtualbox-with-existing-windows-partition that's a start anyway. make sure you look up the mergeide utility. That site focuses on Ubuntu, so if you're running Fedora you'll need to use dd to create the FAKEMBR file insead of installmbr, and I can't at the moment find the command. Running LInux in Windows is easier, if you don't mind having to make sure you select linux in the grub window when it comes up. I'll try to hunt up the URL I used for running Linux in a VM later, gotta get on a online meeting. -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16 -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
