[LBo] Another Virtualbox question

[Bert Van Kets]

David Roseman wrote:
> Following on from the other questions on virtualbox on here, if I have two separate physical HDDs, one with WinXP and the other with Linux and I want to run applications from the windows box, how would I set up the virtual hard drive?
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> Would I just set up the entire windows drive as virtual  in VBox , or just keep that as is and just set aside a section of space on my linux drive?
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> Cheers
> Dave 
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I would not recommend using the real partition as a virtual drive in 
VBox. The difference in hardware between the real system and the virtual 
system might trigger your Windows installation to need to activate again 
due to major hardware changes. As you can only do that twice without 
contacting MS, you would very quickly run into trouble.
I also recommend using a virtual disk, just a file on your host OS, 
instead of mounting the real partition.

Bert