[Opensource] Running windows applications seamlessly inside Linux

[victor rajewski]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:45 PM, victor rajewski <askvictor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Jack Matthews
>  <jack_m_matthews at hotmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >  This is really cool.  I have some questions about this which proved a
>  > problem last time I tried this sort of stuff. If anyone could answer it
>  > would be appreciated.  I have no current install of Linux but will consider
>  > it if this functionality is available.
>  >
>  > 1.  Can you use your existing WIN XP partition as the virtual drive instead
>  > of creating a virtual disk?
>
>  Not directly with virtualbox. I think you could convert a partition to
>  an image, but I don't think you can run straight off a partition. I
>  think VMWare (and probably others) do let you do this, though.

Actually, on further investigation, it _is_ possible to do this. It's
in the manual under advanced topics

vik