[BBLISA] Re: RHEL and Windows simultaneously?
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Apr 12 15:14:51 EDT 2006
Scott Ehrlich <scott at MIT.EDU> writes:
> 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.
Actually, VMWare can use Raw Disks, so you can take an existing OS
installation and boot it in VMware from a secondary system. I do
this on my laptop all the time; it's dual-boot, but 99% of the time
I run Linux and boot the windows installation as a VMware guest.
> What are my options?
-derek
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