skinpusher Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I have Ubuntu 8.04.1, Mac OSX 10.5.5, and Windows XP SP3 installed on my computer, and I can boot into each of them from GRUB. Ubuntu is my primary OS, but I use Windows XP as well as OSX from time to time for various reasons, and sometimes it's not always something that I want to reboot the computer to do, like using Windows Live Messenger so that I can make video-calls back home, which is not something that is possible in Linux currently. Just about the best you can do right now is to talk on the phone while using the web cam, but unfortunately American cell phones are useless in Iraq (where I will be deploying to in a few weeks here. I'm military--Hence the need to keep in touch back home via web cam). Not only that, but they are prohibited for operational security reasons as well. So long story short, Linux is a great operating system but it's not perfect, hence the reason I triple boot. What Ubuntu isn't capable of, either Windows or OSX is. I'd prefer to use OSX more than Windows, but as I'm a recently converted Microsoft whore, I still have a lot of programs and such left over on Windows. I'm happy to say that I no longer use Microsoft Office, I'm 100% using OpenOffice.Org, and I've actually got most of the music and movies on my computer in .ogg format! I don't own a zune or an iPod so I don't absolutely need to have my files in .mp3 or .avi/wmv, etc. formats. I'm a firm believer in open source.... But anyway, enough with my rant. I use Ubuntu as my OS about 90% of the time. I have already been successful in creating a .vmdk of my WinXP partition which I can boot using either VirtualBox or VMWare (I have a copy of VMWare Workstation 6.5). I can boot into XP just fine because I was able to create a dummy MBR file attached to the virtual machine and it's able to bypass the GRUB. But when I try to create a .vmdk of my OSX partition, I'm able to create it, but the virtual machine (either VMWare or VBox) will always crash at startup, stating "GRUB error 17". I've tried creating a dummy MBR file for OSX, but I've had no luck so far. Does anyone know how to get around this? I know that OSX works fine in VMWare because originally Ubuntu was my ONLY operating system and I was running virtualized copies of XP and Mac OSX, but I found that performance was drastically decreased when running them like that and I needed to have dedicated partitions for each OS, but still be able to boot them as virtual machines. PLEASE HELP!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136130-boot-my-osx-partition-in-a-virtual-machine/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nordic2008 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 This error means that grub cannot mount the partition, which means i think that in the vm the wrong partition is selected i think hope this helps you Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/136130-boot-my-osx-partition-in-a-virtual-machine/#findComment-964546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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