anyone tried booting a Windows 7 partition from Maverick Merkaat?
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anyone tried booting a Windows 7 partition from Maverick Merkaat?
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It's copying the first 512 bytes of /dev/sda . The MBR is stored in the first 512 bytes of a drive.
I find it surprising that pretty much no guides included udev rules to give ownership of the windows parition to the vboxusers group rather than the disk group, that's probably a safeish way to fix permissions issues. I have one that works but i'm not certain I've done it properly, so i'll post it here once I know for sure.
Also, thing about always needing to "repair" Windows after alternating betwen virtual and native: I think the only way to fix it is to make a vmdk that gives access to the whole drive and adding users to the disk group, both of which are horrible ideas. It's a design flaw in Windows.
Last edited by peepingtom; May 1st, 2011 at 04:38 PM.
About the activation problem:
I believe there is a solution and it shouldn't be too difficult to get working.
It's not a question of some miraculous hacking, you just need to know which files are used for storing the activation information. With that knowledge you can perform two activations (on physical and vitrual machine) while keeping both versions of the generated files and then write a startup script to switch between them according to the environment.
I haven't written any detailed "how to" since I'm not dealing with this problem myself, but there is already one for Win XP which could be certainly modified to work with Win Vista/7.
Useful links:
XP Guide:
http://mazimi.wordpress.com/2007/07/...-virtualizing/
Info about activation files:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to...-on-reinstall/
So... Did anyone get this working properly with grub2?
Edit: Works perfectly now. I suggest you this guide: Using Virtualbox with an Existing Windows Partition
If you speak German or have no problem with Google Translator English, you should really read this:
On the German ubuntuusers.de wiki there's a very comprehensive article [translated] about it which includes many troubleshooting tips.
Last edited by pcworld; November 18th, 2012 at 03:32 PM.
Thanks for sharing and please do not post in threads that have not had activity for a year or longer, since this is an old thread it has been closed.
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