On Thursday 03 April 2008, Mick wrote:
>
> I am about to try virtualbox on my wifes machine. According to the manual
> you can run an existing installation (using raw disk access) but a number
> of other problems make this less of a practical solution for me; e.g. you
> must shut the VM down before you can dual boot into it normally, you have
> to register it in VM afresh, etc. There may be workarounds to the
> registration issue though: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-579333.html
>
> What I haven't worked out yet is this. Can I create an image from the
> original installation and use this with the VM? How do I go about this?

The problem I've run into with VirtualBox is that network only uses NAT, while
VMWare uses bridging. Probably only a question of understanding how to set up
NAT - seems easy if you're using DHCP but I use fixed IP's

Thierry


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