Running one OS as a virtual one in another?

Question

Virtualization

Greetings!

Has anyone seen a container for running virtual machines from systems installed on a computer? Those. I have two operating systems on my computer - Win and Mac. I want to run the second on one system as a virtual one.

Are there any such containers?

Answer 1

Parallels Desktop for Mac can use the Boot Camp partition without problems. To do this, you must first install Windows next to the Mac using Boot Camp, and then you can start it from this partition using Parallels Desktop for Mac.

Answer 2

VirtualBOX
Create disks (map disk partition with local file)
Linux / OSX

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/vm/xxx.vdmk -rawdisk /dev/xxx -register

Windows

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename c:\xxx.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive0 -register

After creating the disk, create a virtual machine through the GUI and connect this disk to it.

Answer 3

Attach a hard disk partition to the virtual machine, install the bootloader on a separate virtual disk (~100mb should be enough). Perhaps the OS will boot.
In my opinion, it is more convenient to use a Mac and, if necessary, run a VM with Win, than to keep both OSes installed. VMware has a utility for migrating a physical system to a virtual one, you can use it.

Answer 4

Parallels to help you

Answer 5

It seems like a vdisk container or something like that for windows 8, this is just about it.

Answer 6

many virtual machines can natively connect physical partitions and work with them.