virtualization -- how do I use an existing windows installation ?

[Gabriel - IP Guys]

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 at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] 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
> 
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