VMWare Server - Use Physical WinXP?

[Dave Woyciesjes]

Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> Michael James wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:10:20 am Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>>> 	My laptop has WinXP installed on sda1, and Ubuntu on sda2. Has anyone
>>> with a similar setup used the Wizard in VMWare Server to use the WinXP
>>> install as a guest to Ubuntu? To be precise, if I try this, I'm
>>> wondering if the WinXP install will get hosed....
>> Boot into the native windows install and go to the hardware wizard.
>> Create a  "vmware"  profile as well as the default one.
>> You could all the existing profile  "native"  or  "hardware".
>>
>> Don't bother to change anything in either profile at this stage.
>>
>> Re-boot into Ubunto and fire up VMware.
>> Give the virtual machine access to the raw Windows partition.
>> Boot Windows within VMware and choose the  "VMware"  profile.
>> Windows will say something to the effect of,
>>  "Wow things have changed, do you want me to adjust?"
>> Saying yes will only change the  "VMware"  hardware profile,
>>  leaving the  "Native"  one for real boots.  (if you ever do that again...)
> 
> 	Hmmm, got Grub error 17... When I created the VM, I chose to use just 
> the WinXP partition. I wonder if I should haven chosen the whole disk? 
> Probably have to edit Grub so I have plenty of time to choose WinXP. 
> Ubuntu is the default...
> 

	Well I tried one using the whole disk, chose to boot Windows in grub, 
chose the Virtual machine hardware profile I created before, and got a 
BSOD. Stop error....
	Any ideas? I'll continue fiddling...

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