<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 11, 2007 1:11 PM, Dylan Semler <<a href="mailto:dylan.semler@gmail.com">dylan.semler@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Using gparted, I've been able to sneak a Fedora partition on my work laptop and dual boot F8 and XP. My next ambition is to be able to boot my XP partition as a virtual machine in Linux using Xen. I've seen a how-to for vmware[1], but I feel that Xen performs better (especially with the VT-x extension) and I'd like to try that first. Does anyone know if this is possible? [1]http://mazimi.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/virtualization-of-an-existing-physical-partition-of-windows-within-linux/ -- Dylan Type faster. Use Dvorak: <a href="http://dvzine.org" target="_blank"> http://dvzine.org </a> -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </a> </blockquote></div> I don't know about using Xen. I wanted to go that route but my processor does not support VT-x. I use VirtualBox and it works quite well. In their tutorial they have instructions for building a VMDK file that points to the partition. It may be more automated now but it was pretty manual when I did it. A couple of notices: - You need to be root to access the partition directly. I accomplish this by opening a termal and sudo VirtualBox. - Do not mount the partition in Linux and boot the virtual machine at the same time, you can seriously mess up your system this way. - Boot into XP first and create a new hardware profile just for use with Xen/Virtualbox so it doesn't keep re-detecting hardware when you switch back and forth. Richard