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<blockquote data-quote="SpawnHappyJake" data-source="post: 1257031" data-attributes="member: 205651"><p><strong>A Hybrid Approach</strong></p><p></p><p>I figured this deserves a separate post from my last one.</p><p></p><p>Another option is a hybrid between having a dual boot and a virtual machine. If you have Linux on a separate hard drive from Mac OS X, you can have a dual boot between the two...</p><p></p><p>And you can use that Linux hard drive with VirtualBox in Mac OS X in a virtual machine.</p><p></p><p>You can go to terminal and use a feature of VirtualBox only available from commandline: create a vmdk file. A vmdk file is like a shortcut for VirtualBox that links it to a hard drive. When you make the virtual machine in VirtualBox, you tell it to use an existing virtual hard disk instead of creating a new one. Then you select the vmdk file as if it were a virtual hard disk file.</p><p></p><p>You may have to run VirtualBox with administrative rights for it to have raw access to the hard drive. You can just go to terminal and run "sudo virtualbox" to do that.</p><p></p><p>You could probably even install VirtualBox in Linux, create a vmdk file referring to your Mac OS X hard drive, and boot Mac OS X from within Linux. How's that for turning your world inside-out! </p><p>To do that you may have to have VirtualBox emulate EFI. Also, you may want to have GRUB2 help you out. You can make a virtual hard disk in VirtualBox and attach it as a second hard disk in the virtual machine that uses the Mac OS X drive. Then install GRUB2 to this virtual hard disk, and give it a menuentry that boots Mac OS X off the other (the real one) drive. Go back into settings and make the GRUB2 drive master and the Mac OS X shortcut slave.</p><p></p><p>Cheers,</p><p>Jake</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SpawnHappyJake, post: 1257031, member: 205651"] [b]A Hybrid Approach[/b] I figured this deserves a separate post from my last one. Another option is a hybrid between having a dual boot and a virtual machine. If you have Linux on a separate hard drive from Mac OS X, you can have a dual boot between the two... And you can use that Linux hard drive with VirtualBox in Mac OS X in a virtual machine. You can go to terminal and use a feature of VirtualBox only available from commandline: create a vmdk file. A vmdk file is like a shortcut for VirtualBox that links it to a hard drive. When you make the virtual machine in VirtualBox, you tell it to use an existing virtual hard disk instead of creating a new one. Then you select the vmdk file as if it were a virtual hard disk file. You may have to run VirtualBox with administrative rights for it to have raw access to the hard drive. You can just go to terminal and run "sudo virtualbox" to do that. You could probably even install VirtualBox in Linux, create a vmdk file referring to your Mac OS X hard drive, and boot Mac OS X from within Linux. How's that for turning your world inside-out! To do that you may have to have VirtualBox emulate EFI. Also, you may want to have GRUB2 help you out. You can make a virtual hard disk in VirtualBox and attach it as a second hard disk in the virtual machine that uses the Mac OS X drive. Then install GRUB2 to this virtual hard disk, and give it a menuentry that boots Mac OS X off the other (the real one) drive. Go back into settings and make the GRUB2 drive master and the Mac OS X shortcut slave. Cheers, Jake [/QUOTE]
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