Virtual machines

[James McDonald]

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 use VMWare workstation in Linux and pointed it to run a windows 
partition. However the hardware changes significantly enough that it 
prompts for license re-activation.

If you want to run the free VMWare Server (I'm not sure if it supports 
running VM's from a physical disk partition). You can use  the VMWare 
Converter http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/. To convert your 
windows install to a very nicely portable vm.





> (Virtualbox runs great on my amd dual core with 4gb)
>
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> Ken Moffat
> kmoffat at modizzle dot net
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