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I used to dual-boot windows, but I was too lazy to actually reboot, so naturally I had Virtualbox just boot the physical Windows partition while Linux was runni
by tux3 7mo ago
I used to dual-boot windows, but I was too lazy to actually reboot, so naturally I had Virtualbox just boot the physical Windows partition while Linux was running. Which is totally fine!
It's not a real dual boot if you don't boot both partitions at the same time.
As long as you don't install guest VBox drivers, those would make it hang when it boots as the host on physical hardware, since there's no longer someone above to answer the hypercalls.
- johnisgood 7mo agoYeah. That is a valid use. I mean, this is how I installed Windows to begin with, from Linux via QEMU, onto my other hard drive. I did reboot and test it out, and it worked just fine.
- ahartmetz 7mo agoI think Windows refused to do that at some point? So I booted the physical Linux partition from Windows if I needed both at the same time. That's on a laptop that otherwise almost always ran Linux.
- tiberious726 7mo agoIt whines about licensing, but I switch between booting my windows installation bare metal and as a VM all the time
- hdb2 7mo ago> I had Virtualbox just boot the physical Windows partition while Linux was running. Which is totally fine! I had no idea that this was possible, and I learned something new today. Thank you!