Virtualisation and networking

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 11:02 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Keith Antoine wrote:
> > One other thing I wanted to raise was as I have windows install running
> > will it be possible to recognise
> > this with say VMware or some other virtualisation program can access and
> > save installing again to a file
> > system as the old VMware did.
> 
> I believe VMware is capable of using real Windows partitions.  (which is what 
> I think you are asking)
> 
> Not sure whether VirtualBox can.

I am pretty sure VB cannot use a Windows partition direct. At least not
the free download. The most I had heard for VMware was that there was a
utility that could package a partition so it could be put in VMware as a
copy. It is useful for getting an installed XP when you do not have
instal disks, like when XP is pre-installed, It is apparently quite
buggy and only takes the basic stuff needed. As to using the Windows
partition in place, well, I have not seen that. I would love to see that
work. Then my daughter would use Linux much more. She would not loose
The Sims.


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Roger Oberholtzer

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