The pest again

[NoOp]

On 07/21/2008 01:15 PM, Leif Gregory wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:32:14 -0700
> NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> Can you point me to a howto for doing this in VMWare? I use VB (and am
>> quite happy with it w/Win2KP), but I also have two systems with WinXPP
>> on them; one has XP on a partition, the other has XP on it's own
>> drive. Both were OEM installs, so no CD's etc & it's a pain to have
>> to reboot (I use them for troubleshooting customer issues w/new
>> devices etc).
> 
> I used this tutorial to set up two of my Ubuntu boxes to utilize the
> existing Windows partitions on them. 
> 
> http://www.venturecake.com/a-simple-guide-to-using-your-existing-windows-install-apps-in-ubuntu/
> 
> The very important piece is at the GRUB menu to make sure you
> don't let it boot your host Linux partition again as a VM. Could get
> all sorts of wonky things going on as your host and VM compete to write
> to the same files.
> 
> Other than that, it was a piece of cake and works great.
> 
> Note: I think the tutorial is still valid, but I did this under Gutsy
> on those machines. They still work after updating to Hardy.
> 

Thanks! I'll give it a go and let you know if I blow anything up :-)