Scott,<br>
<br>
While the CPU, Memory, video, ethernet, etc. are emulated, you can make VMware use a physical disk as a boot device.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
So you'd want to choose partition and then choose the appropiate partition form which to boot from.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Hope that helps.<br>
<br>
Tim.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott Ehrlich</b> <<a href="mailto:scott@mit.edu">scott@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I currently have my system booting Windows XP installed on a 40 Gig IDE<br>drive. I'm going to add an 80 Gig IDE drive to the system, and plan to<br>RHEL on it. I'd ultimately like to make RH the primary OS and be able to
<br>boot the existing installation of XP in a window within RH (not<br>dual-boot).<br><br>I presume there is a program within RH or the Linux world to permit this?<br><br>I initially thought of VMWare, but that is a self-contained
<br>software computer.<br><br>What are my options?<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Scott<br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@blu.org">Discuss@blu.org</a><br><a href="http://olduvai.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">
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