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.. _desktop version of Linux pre-installed: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuPre-installed
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Virtual machine limitations and drivers.
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Virtualization and driver limitations.
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Similar to live booting,
Linux is often run as a virtual machine,
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An existing Linux partition on a physical hard drive
can, with some care, be virtualized and run on another machine,
or even simply transferred to a USB enclosure and booted directly,
a `virtue which Windows does not share`_,
due both to `licensing and driver problems`_.
a virtue which Windows does not share.
.. _virtue which Windows does not share: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows
.. _licensing and driver problems: https://askubuntu.com/questions/174581/is-there-any-way-to-boot-windows-7-partition-in-virtual-machine
Windows installations, unlike Linux, cannot easily be moved from one
hardware to another. This is not just due to Microsoft's activation
mechanism but the fact that the installed kernel and drivers depend on the
actual hardware.
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows
The problem lies with Windows, in that its driver settings, particularly
for storage devices, are not portable. Unless you modify the Windows
registry to force start storage drivers for both the physical and virtual
machines, you will mostly likely end up with a ``0x0000007B`` STOP blue
screen error each time which will require a restore or modifying the
registry to fix.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/174581/is-there-any-way-to-boot-windows-7-partition-in-virtual-machine
It's even possible to transfer a Linux install to a USB enclosure
and boot it directly on another machine of the same architecture,
although the kernel will lack proprietary drivers (e.g. some wifi cards).
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