On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Daniel B. Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > das wrote: >> >> Hello Friends >> >> As a member of a local linux group called GLT, a few different distros >> of GNU-Linux we have to handle. One or two versions of each Fedora, >> Ubuntu, and OpenSuse. >> >> Earlier, I installed more than one Linux on the HD just for getting >> some suggestion when someone is in problem. Gradually, due to the UUID >> and all this is becoming problemsome. One brute way out is to rewrite >> 'fstab' with device-names in place of UUID-s. But people say these >> days a lot of applications read the UUID-s, so this may get >> problemsome. >> >> So, after some friends suggested, I now want to go into >> virtualization. And I know nothing. I have a really huge amount of HD >> space, and 4GB memory. And my CPU has the virtualization flags. I am >> myself using Fedora 11 Beta and I want to have virtual installations >> of Ubuntu and OpenSuse on my system. >> >> Can you people please suggest me from where to start, some good >> documentation, and not too technical. We are a Linux-User group, >> mainly teachers in profession. >> >> Thanking You >> > > Ok, I followed that wonderful guide, installed VirtualBox, > and chose XP as my first Virtual Machine, but I was > perplexed with "Virtual Hard Disk" menu. > > It seems that VM Wizard wants to create an "image", but my > problem is, that I already have a multiboot setup with XP in > it's own primary partition. > > The choices I have is to: > 1) Create new hard disk > 2) Use existing hard disk > > and then it has a drop down for `media' > > What exactly does it mean by choice (2)? > > Do I have to use the XP CD/DVD and create a NEW > hard disk partition or what? What are my options? > > Thanks! > Dan Take a look at section 4.1 or 4.2 in the manual I can't remember it exactly. Or search the mailing list as this has been discussed recently. To use an existing partition you create a .vmdk file using the command line, sorry no graphical method yet that I know of. You can add access to the whole disk (not recommended) or just to that single partition (recommended). Richard -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
