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How to virtualize multiple Linux OS on a 2nd disk from a Windows host...

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I want to be able to boot into my linux installs from Windows 10 (raw disk).  I have tried setting it up to the best of my educated guessingness but I am not getting past boot up (getting intel pxe boot install of grub bootloader). 

 

Here is my setup:

 

750GB SSD SATA primary drive with only Windows 10 installed (should also have the grub bootloader)

 

2TB HDD secondary SATA drive with a 1.5 TB NTFS "data" partition and the remaining space split between Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Kali and the linux swap.

 

With a raw disk setup with access to only the HDD I could only get an intel pxe boot which went nowhere.  When i tried to also give the VM access to the first 2 small partitions on the SSD, theoretically giving it access to the bootloader for it to use, I get an access error "Physical disk already in use...cannot open the disk Z:\(the HDD)......vdmk or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.  Module "disk" power on failed"

 

Any ideas or can someone point me in the right direction for troubleshooting...

 

TY


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