[gobolinux-users] Virtual Machines

[Carlo Calica]

On 4/7/07, twykke at gmail.com <twykke at gmail.com> wrote:
> VirtualBox and VMware both use a virtual partition stored as a file.
> Does anyone know of VM software which will boot from a real partition,
> that is, one which was not installed using virtualization software and
> can boot on its own?  I know that you can install an OS using VMware
> to a real partition, but it may not be able to boot on its own.


You can point qemu to drive block device (ie /dev/hda).  There are
some patches that support virtual partition tables so it can point to
a partition block dev (ie /dev/hda1 or a lvm dev) according to the
qemu faq.

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Carlo J. Calica