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VirtualBox: using physical partition as virtual drive

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Mar 15, 202685667 views
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Background: I am using VirtualBox installed on Windows 7. From within VirtualBox I am using Xubuntu as a virtual OS. The reason I chose this approach is so that I don't have to keep turning off Windows and rebooting from Xubuntu every time I needed to switch OSes. And VirtualBox's seamless mode is …

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Fix for: VirtualBox: using physical partition as virtual drive

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What you are looking for is called "raw hard disk access" in VirtualBox. Basically you create a virtual disk in vmdk format and configure it to direct to the desired partition or drive. You can find a description in the manual under Advanced topics …

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