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On Thursday 03 April 2008, Mick wrote: |
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> I am about to try virtualbox on my wifes machine. According to the manual |
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> you can run an existing installation (using raw disk access) but a number |
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> of other problems make this less of a practical solution for me; e.g. you |
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> must shut the VM down before you can dual boot into it normally, you have |
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> to register it in VM afresh, etc. There may be workarounds to the |
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> registration issue though: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-579333.html |
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> What I haven't worked out yet is this. Can I create an image from the |
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> original installation and use this with the VM? How do I go about this? |
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The problem I've run into with VirtualBox is that network only uses NAT, while |
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VMWare uses bridging. Probably only a question of understanding how to set up |
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NAT - seems easy if you're using DHCP but I use fixed IP's |
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Thierry |
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