As an aside [& to continue with the original mail....] I have just finished a build of my own desktop pc [started with a Zoostorm cheapo and replaced/added/donated some parts from old pc - an ageing Dell Dimension]. The original XP partition is now on the my sda as sda1. No surprise, but XP won't boot -failing at a "Windows failed to start" blue screen with "this may be because you have installed...]. I am not surprised as most of the machine is different [but I am surprised that it didn't at least boot to the "Oi you! this is not the same machine! message followed by option to re-validate].
The question I have is: would it be possible to run that XP partition on a VM? I normally use VirtuaBox - but have no idea if it can load an XP [ntfs] partition rather than loading a cd or live cd tro a VirtualBox VM? ...and would it be a waste of time trying simply to end up with the same result as booting it direct from GRUB. It would be nice to have a Win load - but don't won't to splash out on a new Windows system I don't fully want - I want a Linux [Ubuntu] pooter than can, if needed, use the existing WinXP install [which I will be internet disabling in April anyway]. Thanks in anticipation. -- Bill B. [SuperEngineer] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
