{"id":7450,"date":"2014-06-19T03:58:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T03:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/19\/virtualbox-using-physical-partition-as-virtual-drive-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2014-06-19T03:58:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T03:58:35","slug":"virtualbox-using-physical-partition-as-virtual-drive-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/19\/virtualbox-using-physical-partition-as-virtual-drive-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"VirtualBox: using physical partition as virtual drive-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background:<\/strong> I am using VirtualBox installed on Windows 7. From within VirtualBox I am using Xubuntu as a virtual OS. The reason I chose this approach is so that I don&#8217;t have to keep turning off Windows and rebooting from Xubuntu every time I needed to switch OSes. And VirtualBox&#8217;s seamless mode is pretty amazing to allow me see Xubuntu and Windows 7 all in one screen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Issue:<\/strong> Now I am thinking of a way to have Xubuntu more integrated into my system. By this I mean I want to have a physical partition for Xubuntu. But I want to still have the feeling of the seamless mode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> So finally, my question is: is it possible to load a partition in VirtualBox as a virtual OS?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Case examples:<\/strong> Ideal scenario would be: I physically boot up and login to Windows 7. Now I want to access Xubuntu, so I load VirtualBox and access my Xubuntu partition without rebooting. And the other way around too, i.e. I boot up the system, login to Xubuntu, and can access the actual Windows 7 partition through VirtualBox.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other info:<\/strong> Please note that I am not talking about getting access to files, as I have a completely separate partition for my files, and am very familiar with VirtualBox&#8217;s Shared Folders option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background: I am using VirtualBox installed on Windows 7. From within VirtualBox I am using Xubuntu as a virtual OS. The reason I chose this approach is so that I don&#8217;t have to keep turning off Windows and rebooting from Xubuntu every time I needed to switch OSes. And VirtualBox&#8217;s seamless mode is pretty amazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}