[Wylug-discuss] Running Windows with VirtualBox

[A J Cole]

Smylers,

>Hello. I've bought a new laptop, to run Ubuntu on. It'll come with
>Windows 7 on it, and it might be nice to be able to run Windows 7 in
>VirtualBox.
>
>Any guidance for how to do this? Or more specifically, for anything I
>should do to snaffle the Windows image from the computer before
>splatting Linux all over it?

OEM licenses are hardware specific and (most/all?) won't run when
virtualised.  You need a retail or volume licensed copy of Windows.

>I'm guessing that Windows installation discs won't be supplied (not
>least of which cos the laptop doesn't have a CD/DVD drive), so I
>presumably need to capture the installed Windows first thing in order to
>have any chance of running it later, yes?

Being a very long time VMware user I always use VMware (vCenter) Converter
>nd have done so since NT days.  VMware "images" can be imported into
VirtualBox.

I use Ghost (or whatever it is currently called) to retain a restorablw
setup.

Andrew