In your position, I would have installed windows 7 into a virtual machine first, if I wanted to be able to use 2 os at the same time. Next best thing you can do, is to make use of the VMware converter, and convert your windows 7 install into a virtual machine, and then import that VM into either VMware, or virtual box. (virtual box is a personal favourite, because it runs on OSX, Linux, and windows, oh, and it's open source!) I use this on all my hardware > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of steve > Sent: 03 November 2009 06:24 > To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. > Subject: virtualization -- how do I use an existing windows > installation ? > > Hi, > > I recently installed windows 7 on my laptop, on a separate partition, > making it > dual boot. Now, I would like to boot into this installation without > having to > reboot. A casual google shows me that one can in fact boot off an > existing > physical partition using any of the commonly available virtualization > tools on > linux -- qemu, VirtualBox & VMPlayer. > > So my question is, has anyone tried doing this and what were your > experiences if > you did ? > > I am not averse to the idea of simply reinstalling windows 7 in a > 'proper' > virtual environment, but just curious whether reusing the existing > installation > is easily doable. I would be using the windows installation just to > test > portability of code that i write. I don't really need to boot into it > often, > neither do i expect it to be lightning fast. > > cheers, > - steve > > -- > random non tech spiel: http://lonetwin.blogspot.com/ > tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/ > what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/ > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
