Access Windows 8 partition via virtualbox


mark1985

I have an Asus K55a laptop and am currently dual booting Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.10.

I'm trying to use VirtualBox to access a Windows 8 partition without rebooting.

clarify:

  • Windows 8 is installed
  • The partition where Win8 installed "OS" has been mounted under /dev/sda3
  • Ubuntu is installed and currently running
  • I want to be able to use the Windows 8 partition via virtualbox

Let me know what I want to do.

Thanks!

Alex McKenzie

Unfortunately, there is no way to do this.

Now, if you don't actually need to boot anything to the Windows partition, but still want to use Windows applications occasionally, there are several ways to convert Windows into a virtual machine. You can then separately install Ubuntu on your computer while booting Windows when needed.

First download VMware Converter, then follow the instructions to convert your computer to a vmware image. Then you can convert it to a Virtualbox image .

This works fine with software like Office, but not if you use Windows to play games.

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