Virtual machines

[Michael Hipp]

Ken Moffat wrote:
> Having tried Virtualbox on Vista to run Ubuntu, I wonder if there is a 
> virtual machine for linux that would allow running an existing windows 
> install. Start it on linux, point it at, say, sda1 which might be a 
> windows partition, avoiding having to reinstall or violate the windows 
> licensing.

I've done this with VMWare Workstation. Not sure about the free VMWare Server.

Windows had to install the virtual hardware. So I ended up making a different 
hardware profile for when running virtual vs direct boot. But it worked well.

Michael