Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Mon 14th Jul 2008 18:25 UTC
VirtualBox is an open-source virtualization alternative to Parallels and VMWare in the MacOS X arena. Here is a step-by-step screenshot tutorial to installing Windows XP using VirtualBox in MacOS X.
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RE: What I'm waiting for
by license_2_blather on Mon 14th Jul 2008 23:50
in reply to "What I'm waiting for"
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VMware used to do this, in its "physical disk" mode. You had to create a second hardware profile in Windows to support the VMware "devices", but other than that it worked. I used it with a Win 2000 guest/physical partition and VMware somewhere around 4 something.
I haven't tried it with VMware 6 and Win XP or later.
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Member since:2005-07-06
VirtualBox supports loading the os from a physical drive, and you can do exactly this. Dealing with the different machine profiles, and remembering never to physically boot into a drive that has previously had its state saved in a vm can make this more aggravating than it at first sounds. 
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I'm still waiting for a way to virtualise an existing, natively installed windows/Linux system. Before I switched to OS X (which runs office natively), I had 2 instances of the same windows sitting on my hard drive. One virtualbox image for MS Office, SPSS etc and one native install for games. It would be wonderful if this could be consolidated into one instance, imho, so I wouldn't have to maintain 2 separate windows's. Of course it would be even better if Virtualbox/VMWare would get fully hardware accelerated graphics. But unfortunately that's not about to happen.