[BBLISA] Re: RHEL and Windows simultaneously?

[Tim Keller]

Scott,

While the CPU, Memory, video, ethernet, etc. are emulated, you can make
VMware use a physical disk as a boot device.

When you create the VM you have three options for disk stuf.. create a new
virtual disk, use an existing virtual disk or use a physcial disk.  If you
choose to use a physical disk, it'll warn you that you're swimming out into
deep water and then ask you if you wan to use the whole disk or a partition.

So you'd want to choose partition and then choose the appropiate partition
form which to boot from.

XP *should* then boot up.  However, it's going to be really pissed about the
whole situation and you'll most definitely have to install the vmware tools.

Hope that helps.

Tim.

On 4/12/06, Scott Ehrlich <scott at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> I currently have my system booting Windows XP installed on a 40 Gig IDE
> drive.  I'm going to add an 80 Gig IDE drive to the system, and plan to
> RHEL on it.   I'd ultimately like to make RH the primary OS and be able to
> boot the existing installation of XP in a window within RH (not
> dual-boot).
>
> I presume there is a program within RH or the Linux world to permit this?
>
> I initially thought of VMWare, but that is a self-contained
> software computer.
>
> What are my options?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
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