On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Julian Elischer <jul...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > If I have a FreeBSD 8 machine with a windows partition that currently works. > is there a way to boot FreeBSD, start virtualbox and run windows from the > current > functional windows partition.. > basically I want to switch over to using dual-boot on this machine to > permanently running BSD with windows as a VM when needed. > > Julian > (I did this many years ago with vmware 1.x but not since). >
Though I've not tried any of the setups, there are several how-tos in the VirtualBox forums explaining how to do just that sort of thing: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewforum.php?f=28 I'm preparing to do essentially the same thing with several machines at work, so I've looked through the Windows 7 and XP instructions; doesn't seem too difficult, but good luck nevertheless... -Brandon _______________________________________________ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
