Virtual machines

[Ken Moffat]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:

> 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
> _______________________________________________
>


Thanks, I'll check it out. I need to run windows on occasion, but would, of
course, prefer not to reboot.


-- 
Ken Moffat
kmoffat at modizzle dot net
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