Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition

Re:Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition by dmead on Saturday November 20, 2021 @12:43PM (#29290162)

I used to do this, but afaik virtual box explicitly disabled this because you risk some problem with data corruption on the partition running on the vm.

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Re:Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition by aasasd on Saturday November 20, 2021 @12:49PM (#29290209)

Perhaps disabled in the GUI, but you can still create a VMDK ‘disk’ file that is just a text file specifying the partition to use.

I'm occasionally using this to install Linux on an external drive.

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Re:Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition by Nextgrid on Saturday November 20, 2021 @01:08PM (#29290356)

Yes that's exactly how I did it back then.

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Re:Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday November 20, 2021 @12:55PM (#29290250)

If you have the ability to mount the filesystem from the VM and the host, then you would almost certainly break the filesystem, although I can't immediately think how to do that with NT host and a Linux VM unless you added a third-party driver for the Linux filesystem.

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Re:Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition by dmead on Saturday November 20, 2021 @08:34PM (#29293413)

There used to be decent ext drivers for windows 7/vista/xp64

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Re:Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition by ineedasername on Saturday November 20, 2021 @12:53PM (#29290242)

I recently did this with the free VMware Player, and it worked alright. Mostly just for "can I do this?", so I don't know how viable or stable it would be for actual use.

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