vmware player

[Robert Aldridge]

>> Well, there is vmware p2v (physical2virtual) which enables you to
>> transform an existing windows installation into a vmware image.
>> However, this Product is NOT free.
>>
>> > To do that, you'd need the full VMware product - the free
>> > VMware server would be sufficient.
>>
>> alternatively you could use vmware workstation which you can
>> run for a 30day trial - for free.

>I think I will try this route and if succesful just buy a copy of
>VMware.

>I thought there was an option in VMware to use a real partition as a
>virtual disk and thus be able to boot an existing Windows installation.
>I guess Windows may have a problem sorting out the change in hardware,
>especially, if I boot the system for real afterwards!

It can be done, though I haven't been successful, yet.  I've been following
the instructions here:
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_disk_dualboot.html .

I'm booting Ubuntu from a USB drive (/dev/sda1) and have WinXP Pro installed
on /dev/hda.  I've created an extra hardware profile while running WinXP
natively.  When I boot the VM within Ubuntu/VMWare, It blue screens before
it offers to select between the profiles.  I'm going to keep working on it.
If I can get it to work, I see no need to ever boot into WinXP again. :)
Though I'm sure there will be occasions when I have to boot it up, but the
fewer the better.

Robert Aldridge
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20060706/6000a65f/attachment.html>