![]() ![]() OK I just tried it now and it seems to work! I have Ubuntu 7.04 as host and XP is installed on another partition (dualboot) and accessed from Ubuntu with Virtualbox via a vmdk file. Also I do not want to go the CEDEGA/Wine route for games as its buggy. Does anyone know if there is any other virtualization software for linux that does support 3d good enough for games like parallels?. Too bad virtual box does not offer 3d support like parallels on mac or I would be running it. Use Grub to dual boot with windows.ģ) Install VirtualBox in Ubuntu and create the special image file for raw disk access pointing to my windows disk.Īnyone else here try this? Any caveats I should be expecting. This is what I came up with as a plan:ġ) Format 3rd disk using Fat32 (better for interacting with linux than NTFS?), install WinXPĢ) Install Ubuntu on the disk 1+2 with software mirroring. 1+2 in software raid mirror with Ubuntu and 3rd for windows. I have been reading the documentation about raw disk access and I think virtualbox is capable but I have not tried this kind of thing before. I want to run WinXP in VirtualBox under Ubuntu most of the time with the option to real boot it to play video games. I'm looking for instructions on how to best go about the following. ![]()
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