Is it safe to start a virtual machine from a real partition?

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zencd2011-09-17 16:48:39

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zencd, 2011-09-17 16:48:39

The HDD has a partition with Ubuntu x64 and a partition with Windows 7 x32.

Is it safe then to run Win from under Lin in a virtual machine?
Is disabling /media/Windows_7 enough to avoid concurrent hard drive access?

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ertaquo, 2011-09-17
@zencd

It is advisable not to allow two virtual machines to use the same partition at the same time. As for the rest, there shouldn't be any problems.

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rPman, 2011-09-17
@rPman

If there is no simultaneous access to the partition (in disk management we remove the letter assignment if these are FAT / NTFS partitions), then there will be no problems, I have repeatedly used this, and not only with VirtualBox, but also with QEMU.