[RLUG] dual-boot to wine/vmware/xen etc.

[James Washer]

This can be done with vmware, but it's not recommended.. The problem is that when you installed windows natively, it was installed for the native hardware (ram,nic,etc etc). When you run it under vmware, it runs on a virtual machine, i.e. "different hardware".


On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:52:30 -0700
Wayne Vieira <Wayne.Vieira at Sun.COM> wrote:

>  
> I have a dual-boot machine (OpenSuse/WinXP) that I've always wanted to run
> as a single system, i.e. one of the OSes underneath the other virtually, via
> wine, Vmware, or whatever. My general preference is to run XP inside Linux,
> but the other way around would be fine too.
> 
> The Howto's I've looked at all seem to involve creating a windows filesystem
> on linux partitions, verses using existing Windows partitions. Is this
> correct, or am I just reading in the wrong place? I don't want to create a
> new windows set of files, I want to use the existing files I already
> created.
> 
> If I am not misreading something, is there one of the virtual machine
> packages that let me do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> Wayne Vieira 
> 
> HPC Architect, 
> 
> Advanced Computing Solutions, Global Systems Practice
> 
> Sun Microsystems Inc.
> 
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