[Opensource] A dual boot VM question

[Adam Barbary]

Vik,

I thought that by reinstalling the VirtualBox package that it would  
recreate the kernel modules for you. When a new kernel is released,  
reinstall the package and you should be able to use your VMs. I must  
point out, that this is based on the non OSE edition, but would be  
worth trying with the OSE edition too.

Cheers,

Adam


On 11/06/2008, at 9:36 AM, victor rajewski wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:25 AM, WEIR Andrew
> <andrew.weir at thomascarr.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>> Dear all
>> I have a machine which dual boots Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit and Xp Sp2.
>>
>> What i would like to do is Boot into my Xp partition directly from  
>> within
>> Ubuntu. Rather then reinstall an new virtual machine.
>>
>> I tried to find things in Google last night but was not able to find
>> anything.
>>
>> I have installed virtual box and KVM but can't seem to make them  
>> boot a
>> already existing installation.
>
> It is possible in virtualbox by creating a vmdk file (vmware disk
> image) which points to the physical partition. The vmdk file will be a
> few bytes and is essentially a pointer. Virtualbox can use these
> files. The main problem you will have is with windows XP itself; it
> tends not to t like moving hardware. I think you can set up two
> different hardware profiles, if you can get it to boot into VBox at
> all - you might need to enter the windows recovery console the first
> time you boot. Or it might just work...
>
> Or if you can get vmware working in hardy (doesn't install quite as
> easily as in earlier versions), you could just run the vmware
> converter in windows to create a virtual copy... but that won't give
> you the dual boot option.
>
> Incidentally, I've been using vbox since upgrading to hardy, and it's
> worth pointing out that the kernel modules needed to run a VM often
> don't get updated until a few days _after_ a kernel update is
> released; so when the ubuntu tells you updates are available, check to
> see if a new image is there, if so, check that virtualbox-ose-modules
> (or something like that) is also available for update, or else you
> won't be able to run your VMs.
>
> vik
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