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Is it possible to use a Vista Boot Camp partition inside Virtual Box on Mac OS X

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Mar 15, 2026486 views
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I've got windows Vista installed inside Virtual Box on my Mac OS partition. I've also got it installed under boot camp and I occasionally boot to it when I want to run windows with better performance and I don't need to run any mac apps. Unfortunately, all the data and apps in the 2 windows vista's…

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Fix for: Is it possible to use a Vista Boot Camp partition inside Virtual Box on Mac OS X

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This is a feature supported by VMWare Fusion and Parallels, however VirtualBox does not support it at this point in time, most likely because they are using the same codebase cross platform. I am not aware of future plans to include this. The only a…

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