Jentoo/wista fun

A while back, I decided it would be a good idea to dual boot my laptop with gentoo and vista.  All went fairly well, never used linux much, because rebooting’s a pain.

I was bored a minute ago, and wondered if I could make the same linux install work in a virtualbox VM.  A bit of fiddling and a google, and I had it booting.  Added one network driver and the install now works flawlessly in both VM and natively.  Cool beans

I am pondering a way to make it automatically boot / timeout into linux when being booted inside the VM, whereas it defaults to vista natively.  I really doubt GRUB can detect virtualbox.

My current plan is to make a CD or floppy image which will boot the linux partition, and put that as the boot device for the VM in virtualbox.  I’m thinking this would work, and I bet I can do it, but it seems a bit ugly.

Anybody else have an elegant hack?  Anybody else ever done what I’m doing?  It seems like a pretty useful thing, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard of it before.