On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 13:11 +0000, Liam Proven wrote: > Secondly, don't try to boot the VM off a disk partition. Image the > disk partition into a file, then use that file as your virtual disk. > Much much safer, and also, when you get the VM configured to use the > virtual emulated hardware, you won't break your real physical install.
Thanks for the hint, Liam. Preparing to image the partition now. I also have the original on original disk in remnants of old machine - still working - as fail safe backup. Might even try running from that disk in this pooter some day. For now though, it's my safe store. ;) -- Bill B. [SuperEngineer] ------------------------------ -Registered Linux User 523667- -Registered Ubuntu User 32366- -----Free as in Freedom------ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
