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I used to do this, but afaik virtual box explicitly disabled this because you risk some problem with data corruption on the partition running on the vm.
by dmead 5y ago
I used to do this, but afaik virtual box explicitly disabled this because you risk some problem with data corruption on the partition running on the vm.
- aasasd 5y agoPerhaps disabled in the GUI, but you can still create a VMDK ‘disk’ file that is just a text file specifying the partition to use. I'm occasionally using this to install Linux on an external drive.
- Nextgrid 5y agoYes that's exactly how I did it back then.
- ineedasername 5y agoI recently did this with the free VMware Player, and it worked alright. Mostly just for "can I do this?", so I don't know how viable or stable it would be for actual use.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoIf you have the ability to mount the filesystem from the VM and the host, then you would almost certainly break the filesystem, although I can't immediately think how to do that with NT host and a Linux VM unless you added a third-party driver for the Linux filesystem.
- dmead 5y agoThere used to be decent ext drivers for windows 7/vista/xp64