Hi, just a quick question to find out if this is possible using vitalisation software or other types of software.

I currently have linux mint on my laptop, on that I have VM VirtualBox running windows xp and bt4.

I am also planning on adding bt4 (and maybe xp, if it works) on a separate partition so that I can boot into bt4 when needing full cpu/memory resources.


My question is, would it be possible to somehow link the os installed on (for example) partition B with virtualbox so that whatever I do on the vm is reflected on the main os on partition B?


Just to make sure I'm explaining this correctly:

Partition A = linux mint
Partition B = BT4
Partition C = XP

Partition A has mint installed with VirtualBox with BT4 (linked to partition B) and XP (linked to partition C)

I'm aware that this is more than likely not possible but I thought I would check as it would be a great way to be able to dual boot with the option of "porting" into another OS/partition...

sorry if this makes no sense, not had my morning coffee yet!

Chris

It will definately not work legally with XP. The Os would want to re-activate after each reboot because of the changing hardware. It would be against the EULA as well if it did work.
It could maybe be made working for linux but would certainly require you to adapt a couple of things when starting.
Things that come to mind which might need adaption:

• load/unload vbox guest-additions
• xorg vboxdriver vs. physical hardware
• network drivers

Thanks for the reply - I don't think I have the knowledge for doing that so I'm not going to pursue this idea, I can see this being useful if it was to work with linux though.

Thanks

Chris