Re: [orca-list] Dualbooting Linux and Windows

["John G. Heim" <jheim math wisc edu>]

If you need to share files between Windows and Linux on a dual boot 
machine, you can set up an NTFS partition specifically to use for shared 
files. But here's something even cooler. With a VirtualBox virtual 
machine, you can easily access files on the virtual hard drive. Sayyour 
Windows virtual machine is called Windows10_64 and the virtual hard 
drive is stored in ~/VirtualBox\ VMs/Windows10_64/Windows10_64.vdi. Then 
you can do this:

export VMNAME=Windows10_64
sudo modprobe nbd max_part=8
sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 "~/VirtualBox VMs/$VMNAME/$VMNAME.vdi"
sudo mount /dev/nbd0p2 /mnt/vdi

If you do an "ls /mnt" after that, you should see all your Windows 
partitions there.



On 4/19/22 06:52, Kyle via orca-list wrote:
> One word: don't. Your best bet is to run a virtual machine on your Linux 
> host, if you feel you must. You can snapshot the virtual machine at any 
> time so you have something that works to go back to when something 
> inevitably goes wrong, and when the unthinkable but highly likely 
> happens to your virtual machine, you can just destroy it and rebuild it. 
> You may even be able to share files or even devices between the Linux 
> host and the virtual machine, something that is simply not possible when 
> dual booting. Also, Microsoft destroys your bootloader because it wants 
> to be the only rat in your lab, so you need to keep it in a secure cage. 
> Most virtual machine software should be secure enough to cage the 
> Microsoft rat properly.
>
> ~Kyle
>
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