Virtualisation and networking

James McDonald james at jamesmcdonald.id.au
Wed Apr 16 14:47:16 PDT 2008


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)
>   
Yes I've used VMWare to boot a windows partition. However because the 
'hardware' (meaning vmwares virtual devices) has changed you will have 
to reactivate windows.
> Not sure whether VirtualBox can.
>   





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