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@unchartedworlds Don't have a write-up or link unfortunately, but I once (long ago) followed a guide to create a VMDK (or whatever VMWare's disk format is called) referencing a physical disk partition, so I could run the same Windows 7 directly or as VM inside VirtualBox on Linux. It complained about licensing due to the “hardware” changing. Converting that disk image file to VirtualBox's native format resulted in a VM only copy. But searching for something like “VBoxManage create disk image from physical partition” / “VirtualBox disk image for physical partition reference” should find you something helpful for VirtualBox. @raymaccarthy