Is there any way to boot Windows 7 partition in virtual machine?

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  • Yes, both Virtualbox and VMWare virtual machines will boot from a physical partition provided they are started with the appropriate permissions (gksudo/sudo).

  • The problem lies with Windows, in that its driver settings, particularly for storage devices, are not portable. Unless you modify the Windows registry to force start storage drivers for both the physical and virtual machines, you will mostly likely end up with a 0x0000007B STOP blue screen error each time which will require a restore or modifying the registry to fix.

See this guide for hints on how to do this and troubleshoot 0x7B errors if you want to try (it discusses physical-to-virtual conversions).

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  • Amit Rane
    Amit Rane over 1 year

    I have a dual boot machine with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Some time I need Windows 7 during my work. For that I reboot to Windows. It's not a way that I won't access NTFS partition. I need my Windows 7 environment sometime.

    Is it possible to boot my Windows 7 partition in virtual machine in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS? That would break me from rebooting. I had heard about Xen and KVM virtual system but don't know how to use.

    Any help to use Windows 7 partition on hard disk to boot in virtual box?

    • Mitch
      Mitch over 11 years
      The same Windows 7 installation that you have now?
    • Amit Rane
      Amit Rane over 11 years
      Yes i have dual boot system. Win7 and ubuntu on single hard disk. I want to use the win7 partition to boot in virtual
    • Akshit Baunthiyal
      Akshit Baunthiyal over 11 years
      I don't think that is possible. If you need a Windows-environment, you need to login to a windows environment. If there are some applications you need to use, use Wine.
    • flickerfly
      flickerfly over 10 years
      I see places that say it is possible with KVM. Has anyone accomplished that?
  • Amit Rane
    Amit Rane over 11 years
    So there is no way to boot win7 partition in ubuntu virtualbox still now, due to windows problem :(
  • ish
    ish over 11 years
    @AthloX: see edit, added a link which may help. But please backup your Windows first...
  • Amit Rane
    Amit Rane over 11 years
    Wow now that's thumbs up @izx. I will surely try this on my scrap machine first and let hit this answer as correct if worked

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