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Booting into a Virtual Machine from a physical installation

In Mac OSX, you can create a Boot Camp partition, install Windows on it, and then later by using Parallels you can boot into that OS virtually in OS X! Its awesome, I've been using it on my macbook.

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"On Windows 8, I was able to to it quite easily. Instead of using VMWare or Virtual box, I used the default Hyper-V program to do it.

Go to Disk Management, and make the second HDD as offline(Right-Click on the HDD and from the context menu, select ""Offline"".

Install Hyper-V manager, if you don't already have that. You can probably Run ""Programs and Features"" to install this.

Once you do this, fire up Hyper-V manager, create a new virtual machine, and choose the disk as the second HDD on your system which you had just made offline.

That should initiate the boot from the second HDD.

When an HDD is offline, you cannot access it from Windows partition. So, after you are done working with the VM, and shutdown, go to Disk Management, and make the HDD online again, and then you can access it from your Windows partition.

Here's a link to help you with installing Hyper-V manager on Windows 7.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/schadinio/archive/2010/07/09/installing-hyper-v-manager-on-windows-7.aspx"