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Booting native installations in VirtualBox

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Limp Gawd
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I currently have Windows 7 and Snow Leopard installed on separate drives. What I would like to do is be able to use my native installation as a VM, i.e. be able to use the Win7 that I already have (similar to what Fusion can do with the bootcamp partition) instead of maintaining a separate vm for it.

First of all, is this viable, or is it going to cause problems?

Second, I've found guides for doing this in Ubuntu and with external drives, but I'm not sure about the syntax for OS X.

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/Library/VirtualBox/HardDisks/Win7nat.vmdk -rawdisk /XXX -register
How should I tell it where to find the physical drive? I've tried both /Volumes/Untitled as well as disk0. Also how do I handle the way Windows 7 creates the "System Reserved" partition?

What do the experts say? :)
 
Yea, Fusion and Parrellels can do it, that I know for sure.
 
I've used Fusion, but I'm trying to stick with VB since it's cross platform... and free:D
I was planning on adding an Ubuntu drive and doing the same thing. The idea would be to be able to use any of them natively and the other 2 as VM's (os x being the problem of course). I may just make Ubuntu a shared VM though since I likely won't use it as a main OS.

Either just no one is doing it or there seems to be some reservation about doing this type of deal with virtual box though.
 
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