[CVALE] Dual boot to Wine, vmware, etc.

[Joshua J. Kugler]

On Sunday 01 October 2006 07:11, Wayne Vieira said something like:
>  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?

VMWare will let you use an existing physical partition.  I've never done 
it, but I've seen the option many times when I was creating a new 
VMWare machine.  Root permissions are required for raw access to a 
partition, so I'm not sure how it would work, but it's worth checking 
out.

j

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