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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> Alberto Ruiz
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