Re: Using a dedicated partition for VBox install
On 2016-03-07, Levi Darrell <levidarrell@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Has anybody had any luck using VBox to install a second system to a
> dedicated partition on the host system, rather than a dynamically allocated
> virtual hard disk? The reason I want to do this is that my computer has two
> drives, a 120 GB SSD to which I have my host Debian system installed, and a
> 1 TB HDD. As much as I dislike it, I occasionally have to use Windows. I
> have Debian installed on the SSD because it is much faster that way.
> However, I don't want Windows to use any space on the SSD because space
> there is limited. I could install Windows directly to the HDD, but I don't
> want to do this because I already have an LFS system installed to the first
> partition of that drive, and Windows will only install to the first
> partition of a drive. I'd have to move things around in order to get that
> to work. Secondly, I don't want to have to boot in and out of my Debian
> system every time I need to use Windows for something. I want to be able to
> use Windows through VBoxHeadless in a shell console, and then be able to
> switch between shell consoles from Debian to Windows.
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> I installed VirtualBox version 5.0.16 from the VBox website, using the .run
> file. I tried installing the .deb package first, but the installation
> wouldn't complete because it wanted me to install packages that are no
> longer in the repository. The .run installation completed successfully. I
> successfully installed the extension pack. I was able to install both
> Windows 10 and Windows 7 to a regular virtual hard disk on /dev/sda using
> VBox. Everything is working fine. However, I can't get VBox to install the
> machine to /dev/sdb4, which is where I want to install the system.
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Can you not create a file system on /dev/sbd4, mount it, and configure
VirtualBox to use the mount point as its default machine folder? Perhaps
I'm missing something, but I don't understand the need to install to a
raw disk.
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Liam
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