Re: Run Windows XP partition from gnome-boxes

[Alfredo Matas <amatas gmail com>]

Hi Nelson,

As Alberto said Windows XP doesn't like that the hardware changes,
anyway I followed this guide [1] some time ago to migrate a Windows XP
to a VirtualBox VM. I guess that you can give a try following the same
steps without the installation of vbox utils.

[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org> wrote:
> Hello Nelson,
>
> You can't do that with boxes alone, there are ways to assign a physical
> partition to a VM using another tool called virt-manager, however your
> Windows partition will not just work like that, Windows XP does not like if
> you change the hardware setup and it will fail to boot properly if you
> launch it from a VM. I would recommend you install Windows XP from scratch
> inside Boxes.
>
> 2015-11-07 8:22 GMT+00:00 Nelson Benítez León <nbenitezl gmail com>:
> > Hi all, this is a newbie question, I have my laptop with dual boot,
> > Windows XP in one partition and Fedora 21 in another one, I'm 75% of my time
> > in Fedora but from time to time I need to do some thing in Windows XP.
> >
> > I would like to know if it's possible to run the Windows XP from
> > gnome-boxes so I don't have to leave Fedora and boot again.. I tried it but
> > couldn't find the option for that.
> >
> > Regards!
> >
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>
> --
> Cheers,
> Alberto Ruiz
>
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