VirtualBox
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Installation
Reference instructions can be found here:
- Add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list (here for Ubuntu Karmic): deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian karmic non-free
- Add the Sun public key for apt-secure, then install
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get install virtualbox-3.1
The group vboxusers is created during installation.
- Users of the VirtualBox must be member of that group. New users can be added with
sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers username
- The daemon for the network interfaces will be assigned to that group.
VirtualBox requires a kernel module vboxdrv.
- The default location of the module is given by setting KDIR=[fullpath] in file /etc/default/virtualbox.
- The kernel module can be compiled with
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
- Enable Dynamic Kernel Module Support to deal with Kernel Upgrade
Creating a New Virtual Machine
- To boot a Virtual Machine directly from a physical disk partitions, check the page on raw disks.
Booting Existing Windows XP from Physical Partition
Here I describe my attempt at booting the existing Windows XP partition on a Dell E6500.
- In Windows, created a 2nd hardware profile called Virtual, copy of the original profile Profile 1
- New VirtualBox machine:
- Base Memory 1894MB
- Using raw disk only with partition /dev/sda2 doesn't work
sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename nxl670002-sda2.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 2
- This doesn't work! First Grub complained, then I tried to restore back the default WXP MBR (using either install-mbr or ms-sys but to no avail)
I created
- Virtual machine NXL670002
- Base Memory 1894 MB
- Using raw disk with whole disk access/dev/sda
sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename nxl670002-sda.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda
- This works, Windows boots!
- But hangs. In Safe Mode, it hangs after loading AGPCPQ.SYS.
- Some related posts:
- http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic21511.html
- http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19847
- http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=3865
- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1330484
- This post refers to problem with ACPI / APIC.
External references:
- Interesting post about step-by-step configuration to run an existing Windows XP installation.