

Then choose the existing hard disk drive, and select the file hdd.vmdk in your home folder. To give VirtualBox access to the entire disk (change the x to appropriate letter, for example, a): VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/hdd.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdx After installation you can reboot the computer and boot windows as normally. Then install Windows XP in the virtual machine and create a new partition on the real hard disk drive. You can use VirtualBox and give the virtual machine access to the hard disk drive.
