On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Carl Johnson wrote:
Eduardo Morras <[email protected]> writes:
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:07:41 -0800 (PST)
<[email protected]> wrote:
Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. Can FreeBSD 9.1 be installed on
a computer on which Windows XP currently resides? If so, how can
this installation be >done? In particular, is there a way to install
9.1 so that it can be booted from the traditional master boot record?
It is important that, when I am done, I can >still boot to Windows
XP, as I must run some applications not available on FreeBSD. If the
idea I am proposing is not feasible with version 9.1, will it work
with >8.3? Any comments are appreciated. If this question has
already been asked many times before, please just let me know where
to look to find the answer. Thanks. >Newbie502
As an addon to other answers, you can install VirtualBox, create a
minimal hard disk with MBR boot menu that points to the WindowsXP
partition. This way you don't need to restart in WinXP. The same can
be done from WinXP side, a minimal hd with MBR boot menu to startup
the FreeBSD.
It is my understanding that FreeBSD doesn't allow using part of a disk,
but grabs the entire disk. That means that VirtualBox can't use
partitions on a disk that any other partitions are being used by
anything else, including FreeBSD itself. Am I wrong about this? I use
VirtualBox using vdmk for an entire disk, but I have never been able to
share with anything else.
It's very hard to tell what situation is being described here. If the
VMDK is a pointer to a whole physical disk, that would probably make the
disk only usable by one VM. It should be possible to make the VMDK
point to just one partition on the disk. Then other VMs or a physical
machine could use those other partitions while the FreeBSD VM was
running.
Booting the same Windows install alternately in a VM and then on real
hardware may trigger the "Genuine Advantage" annoyance.
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