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

[Wayne Vieira]

Thanks, Joshua.  How does one tell which version of VMWare to get?  It
seems like there are too many choices? 

Wayne


Joshua J. Kugler wrote On 10/01/2006 01:29 PM,:

>On Sunday 01 October 2006 07:11, Wayne Vieira said something like:
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>> 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.
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>>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.
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>>If I am not misreading something, is there one of the virtual machine
>>packages that let me do this?
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>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.
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>j
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