dinofelis
June 4th, 2010, 01:21 PM
Is it possible to boot from an existing winXP installation in a virtual machine while being under Ubuntu ?
I have a dual boot system: an external USB disk featuring grub and ubuntu, and my (untouched) internal disc containing a winXP 64 installation. I can boot directly under winXP, or I can boot from the USB disc and from within grub I can choose between ubuntu and the same winXP.
However, what I would like to be able is to boot under ubuntu, and then boot, from within a virtual machine, on my *existing* winXP installation (instead of making a NEW installation of XP), so that I can do things in winXP while being logged in under ubuntu, as would be the case if I had a new virtual machine on which I would have installed, from scratch, a new winXP.
Is this possible ? And so, how ?
Thanks !
I have a dual boot system: an external USB disk featuring grub and ubuntu, and my (untouched) internal disc containing a winXP 64 installation. I can boot directly under winXP, or I can boot from the USB disc and from within grub I can choose between ubuntu and the same winXP.
However, what I would like to be able is to boot under ubuntu, and then boot, from within a virtual machine, on my *existing* winXP installation (instead of making a NEW installation of XP), so that I can do things in winXP while being logged in under ubuntu, as would be the case if I had a new virtual machine on which I would have installed, from scratch, a new winXP.
Is this possible ? And so, how ?
Thanks !