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

[Joshua J. Kugler]

On Monday 02 October 2006 21:30, Dennis Baker said something like:
> I'm not sure this would work quite right.  VMware virtual machines
> require different drivers than the drivers which you install if you
> are running raw...  I'm never messed with it but I think you have to
> use a separate install.

Yes, it requires different drivers, but those can be loaded on startup 
via plug-and-play.  And at any rate, if you are primarily using Linux, 
you shouldn't be switching back and forth between native and VMWare 
anyway.

j

>
> On 10/1/06, Wayne Vieira <wavieira at sbcglobal.net> 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
> >
> >
> >
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