On 10/1/18 8:34 AM, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 01/10/2018 à 14:16, George from the tribe a écrit :
The barrier seems to be figuring out how to get a virtual machine to recognize the file system of the physical hard drive, rather than only recognizing virtual drives. Maybe I could trick it into thinking it is a network drive, or something like that?
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk
jdd
That was perfect, thanks. I installed virtualbox in Windows, created an opensuse VM, and set it up to access my data partition which I normally use when I boot into opensuse tumbleweed. I am now sending this email using the same thunderbird api that I use when I am running my tumbleweed system, but because I set the virtual machine to boot up with the same partition for home that I normally use, it is a totally seemless changeover. All I had to do was install thunderbird in the virtual machine, and it runs just fine. Of course running everything in the vm is slower than running things directly, but this will enable me to do what I want to do when I have to be in windows. I may run into some problems with different versions of applications, in that I am running Leap 15 in the VM, but I am running tumbleweed when I boot direct into linux, but I will sort that out when I get to it. The main thing I need is to be able to use libreoffice for certain things in my VM. So it looks like it works, and I am good to go now. Thanks again. -- George Box: 42.3 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: TW | Plasma 5.13 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: 15.0 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | Core i5 | 64 | 8GB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org