On Thursday 03 April 2008, Mick wrote: > > I am about to try virtualbox on my wifes machine. According to the manual > you can run an existing installation (using raw disk access) but a number > of other problems make this less of a practical solution for me; e.g. you > must shut the VM down before you can dual boot into it normally, you have > to register it in VM afresh, etc. There may be workarounds to the > registration issue though: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-579333.html > > What I haven't worked out yet is this. Can I create an image from the > original installation and use this with the VM? How do I go about this?
The problem I've run into with VirtualBox is that network only uses NAT, while VMWare uses bridging. Probably only a question of understanding how to set up NAT - seems easy if you're using DHCP but I use fixed IP's Thierry -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
