[orca-list] Qemu (was: Dualbooting)

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

I've been using VirtualBox for years but as a result of this thread, I 
gave qemu a try today. I was able to figure out qemu well enough in only 
about one hour to get a Win10 machine created. Even more interesting to 
me was that I could start a qemu virtual machine with the virtual hard 
drive I created with VirtualBox.  So I don't even have to re-install 
Windows, nvda, or any of the other programs I was using. Very nice.
On 4/19/22 09:43, John G. Heim wrote:
> 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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John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim math wisc edu