Vbox using phisical partition

[kya]

Hi, i was found (probably, not everything I understood), that on virtualBox we can run system existing on physical partition, but I don't find the way to do this on sabayon. Anyone find way to do this?

[Fitzcarraldo]

Boot a local (raw) Windows XP partition under Gentoo/Linux Host using VirtualBox

The following is an incomplete article under development in the Gentoo Wiki: Running a VirtualBox Guest from a Real Partition.

Look over at the virtualbox forums for how to run Windows from a hard disk partition. You need to create separate hardware profiles in Windows.

There is just one catch. You will need to have two licenses of Windows, otherwise it will ask you for activation everytime you alternate between booting in virtualbox and booting natively. I think even this aspect is documented in virtualbox or vmware forums.

(Sabayon Linux is customised Gentoo Linux.)

[kya]

thx for answer. "There is just one catch. You will need to have two licenses of Windows, otherwise it will ask you for activation everytime you alternate between booting in virtualbox and booting natively" don't sounds good

[DanySK]

I actually don't experience that problem. But I have a particular license (it is a student license from my University), don't know exactly if there are less limitations.