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Creating windows VM

Asked by David Hartung

I have installed Virtualbox OSE on my machine, and wish to set up an XP virtual machine. My computer is currently a dual boot machine with both XP and Ubuntu. Can I use the existing windows installation To create my virtual machine? If this is possible, how do I do it?

Thank you in advance for your help.

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#1

VMware offers a program, convertvm, which will take a snapshot of a running XP system and create a VM file which will run in VMplayer. Both of thse programs are freely downloadable. I had convertvm write to an external usb drive for its output, which was about 30G (from an 80G disk). I did try to convert the vmware virtual machine to kvm format, and apparently succeeded, but the kvm VM could not find a disk to boot (maybe because I had a grub boot on another windows partition). I didn't play around with the kvm problem, since the vmplayer worked fine for me, and I don't run the Windows VM very frequently, it was really just a backup.

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