Bootcamp AND Virtual Box?

[ArtOfWarfare]

I just discovered that there's a free virtualization program called Virtual Box... but I've been using Boot Camp for the past few months. Is there some way I can easily migrate from one to the other? (Or... better would be to be able to use both! That way if I just want to open a small game like Peggle for a few minutes I can open it in Virtual Box but when I'm thinking of something bigger like Portal or Half-Life 2 I can use Boot Camp and so devote all my CPU to the game?)

Wait... maybe when I try installing VB it'll just be smart enough and recognize the partition for XP that Boot Camp automatically made for me a few months ago and be able to use it...

 

[MacDawg]

Yes, it should work from your Boot Camp partition, just like Parallels or VMWare Fusion

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[Neil321]

Yes, it should work from your Boot Camp partition, just like Parallels or VMWare Fusion

Woof, Woof - Dawg

Dawg please could you point to where it says that it can do this as i was under the impression it could only run windows as a virtual OS and not off a partition , I'm happy with Fusion but just out of curiosity

 

[Mr. Zarniwoop]

Yes, it should work from your Boot Camp partition, just like Parallels or VMWare Fusion

Well, not exactly...

While there are non-trivial ways to have VirtualBox use a Windows partition (like a Boot Camp partition) as a guest OS, the VirtualBox Guest Additions do not handle Microsoft activation issues like VMware Fusion and Parallels do. So Windows will trigger a request for another activation, and can even identify itself as counterfeit Windows.

 

[Neil321]

Well, not exactly...While there are non-trivial ways to have VirtualBox use a Windows partition (like a Boot Camp partition) as a guest OS, the VirtualBox Guest Additions do not handle Microsoft activation issues like VMware Fusion and Parallels do. So Windows will trigger a request for another activation, and can even identify itself as counterfeit Windows.

Thanks for that,as i was reading threw their info and unless i missed something i couldn't find where it was possible

 

[jeffuwee]

vmware and parallels and virtual box can handle games? i thought the virtual pc was too slow or something?

 

[dukebound85]

vmware and parallels and virtual box can handle games? i thought the virtual pc was too slow or something?

sorry but that made no sense


vmware/parralels/virtual box are intel programs


virtual pc is a powerpc app


at any rate, none of them can run the latest games

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

Well, not exactly...

While there are non-trivial ways to have VirtualBox use a Windows partition (like a Boot Camp partition) as a guest OS, the VirtualBox Guest Additions do not handle Microsoft activation issues like VMware Fusion and Parallels do. So Windows will trigger a request for another activation, and can even identify itself as counterfeit Windows.

Bummer... well, since I already have boot camp set up and I don't feel comfortable using terminal (I'll keep using Tinker Tools for UI modifications thank you very much,) I think I'll just stick with boot camp.