I think I've finally found the "holy grail" of dual booting. My laptop now has Windows and Linux on different partitions, and either one can run in a VirtualBox inside of the other. That way, no matter which OS I booted too, I still have access to everything in the other.
Protip: never use VirtualBox's "save machine state and close" feature if you plan to dual boot like this. Its too easy to forget and boot to that OS directly next time...
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I think I've finally found the "holy grail" of dual booting. My laptop now has Windows and Linux on different partitions, and either one can run in a VirtualBox inside of the other. That way, no matter which OS I booted too, I still have access to everything in the other.
How did you do that? Last time I tried, it left Windows nearly unbootable.
Take a look at http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=33356 (win7) or http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=9697 (winxp).
Protip: never use VirtualBox's "save machine state and close" feature if you plan to dual boot like this. Its too easy to forget and boot to that OS directly next time...