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Dualboot windows and linux, and use virtualbox with the same windows install!
« on: May 27, 2011, 03:44:19 PM »
No need for double installs of windows!
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Re: Dualboot windows and linux, and use virtualbox with the same windows install!
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2011, 11:11:43 AM »
Interesting, but I don't think I could do this on my laptop due to this:
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IMPORTANT: Pick the same number of CPU cores your native windows detects

My motherboard and CPU don't allow emulation, so I can only use one core in virtualbox.  :-[
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Re: Dualboot windows and linux, and use virtualbox with the same windows install!
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2011, 01:30:43 PM »
O.O I've been wanting to do this for like a year. Doing this now. I'll report back how it works for me
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Re: Dualboot windows and linux, and use virtualbox with the same windows install!
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2011, 05:55:31 AM »
Im gonna give it a go later on with Ubuntu and Windows 7, will report how it goes as well
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Re: Dualboot windows and linux, and use virtualbox with the same windows install!
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2011, 07:08:42 AM »
Soooo i tried. And i dont think its possible because i have grub installed like this...
/dev/sda - Grub,Ubuntu
/dev/sdb - Windows

I think in order for this to work you would have to have grub on the windows partition. Which i just dont feel like doing.

I also tried setting up BOTH partitions to be accessible in virtualbox. Which got grub to load. But when i tried booting windows from that i got an error.

I guess Another alternative might be to install ubuntu in a new virtualbox with both the virtualdisk for ubuntu and a sata connector for windows. Then ubuntu might do some magic grub configuration and i might be able to boot that way. (I'd do it this way because I dont feel like learning how to configure grub2 which has pretty much become the new standard....I knew how to manually do grub1)
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