#Can you boot from an external hard drive time machine install#
Then create a Virtual Machine as ever you do.Īt Windows \\.\Physicaldrive1 -partitions 1Įventually you can get resolution issues even after install vboxadditions, in my experience the problem is your /etc/X11/nf it is configured to your specific real hardware specs(I have a offboard GPU for example), least in my case I solve it simply removing this file (xorg auto configure at boot, only will not work if you set some specific setting), so run: sudo cp /etc/X11/nf /etc/X11/ & sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg. It will create a file with something around 1kb that is a link to the physical hard drive. Remove Hardware if you’re rebooting and Windows is still running), and turn it. Turn off your external hard disk when you boot (be sure to click Safely. In Linux $ VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "~/linuxhd.vmdk" -rawdisk "/dev/sda" Let the BIOS check for bootable USB devices before it checks the hard. RAW host disk access VMDK file E:\virtualbox\linuxhd.vmdk created successfully. In Windows C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "E:\virtualbox\linuxhd.vmdk" -rawdisk "\\.\PhysicalDrive1" So there are at least two known and tested ways for accomplishing this that I can tell you.Īs answered, this also can be done in VirtualBox, this is the way that works for meĪlways, make sure that you are running as Administrator(Windows) or Sudo(Linux), any changes that you do will write to the REAL disk, so be carefull More Info: I should add, I have successfully done this, but I also had success using this method years even years before. At this point you're done Select Power On to boot the Physical drive.Select the memory to devote to the virtual machine.Choose public or private (on a single-user machine this doesn't.Go to File -> New -> New Virtual Machine.sudo mount ntfs-3g /dev/whereyourdriveis /mount/somemountpoint -oįorce Once the drive is mounted under linux contiunue to step 2. If the drive was shutdown uncleanly you may need to manually Used a USB 3.5 HD enclosure and connect the XP drive to it. Yes, I did this long ago following this guide: