On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 12:26 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> 
> What if I wipe out my linux box,

I wonder if you have to do that even.

> reinstall on original physical
> hardware on a limited size partition. Will I be able to start virtual
> box from this partition ?

Yes.

> In the end linux should be my main platform and WinXP be run in virtualbox.

Yes.

> Just out of curiosity is this documented somewhere, I did not find any
> mention of this any where, thanks !

Using a physical partition/disk should be in the manual.

Before resigning to wiping your Linux installation altogether (but be
prepared to restore/re-install, just in case) you might try just freeing
up space on the disk in order to shrink the linux partition and create a
new empty partition for Windows to restore into.  You might need to
choose some sort of "Custom" option during the Windows install/restore.

If all else fails, you can just follow your original plan to
install/restore windows from the recovery media and then restore/install
Linux.

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