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Boot into Virtualbox vdi directly from GRUB menu -- boot virtual OS

Asked by svens

Hey guys,

I'm trying to find a possibility to add a vdi image to grub's menu.lst so I can
boot into a virtual OS created in Virtualbox.

The main thing is to skip almost all the resources that Ubuntu will require to run properly
as a normal disk OS, and use just a custom kernel with the requires libraries/modules
to boot directly into a vdi installed OS.

Thanks in advance for any recommendation.

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svens (svens) said : 		#1

In fact, I want it to act more like xen, to be more specific.

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#2

Do you use Grub 1 or 2 ?

I don't know how act Xen. For what I read and understand, Xen act more like a hypervisor and VirtualBox like a full virtualization. Xen is by itself a small OS, and can be loaded by Grub directly. VirtualBox rely fully on host OS - Linux kernel - which must be loaded first, which will launch after VirtualBox and then this last one will load VM. What you could do is to add in start menu a shell script which launch VM through VirtualBox.

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svens (svens) said : 		#3

It's grub 2 as Ubuntu 11.04 uses now.
I guess I'll just stay on xen. I've been researching and what I want to do
is not likely possible.

Thanks delance.

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svens (svens) said : 		#4

Thanks.
Problem solved.

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 19:45, svens
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Your question #171383 on grub2 in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+question/171383
>
> Status: Open => Solved
>
> You confirmed that the question is solved:
> It's grub 2 as Ubuntu 11.04 uses now.
> I guess I'll just stay on xen. I've been researching and what I want to do
> is not likely possible.
>
> Thanks delance.
>
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> You received this question notification because you asked the question.
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