<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Michael Hipp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Michael@hipp.com">Michael@hipp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Ken Moffat wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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I've done this with VMWare Workstation. Not sure about the free VMWare Server.<br>
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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.<br>
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Michael<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br>Thanks, I'll check it out. I need to run windows on occasion, but would, of course, prefer not to reboot.<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ken Moffat<br>kmoffat at modizzle dot net<br>