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[Russell Cloran]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Charl Wentzel
<charl.wentzel at vodamail.co.za> wrote:
> I'm not familiar with virtualisation software in Linux.  I know that on
> a machine setup for dual booting a Windows and a Linux partition; you
> can boot the Linux partition in Windows as a virtual machine using
> VMware.

For what it's worth, I ran into problems with booting Vista using
Virtualbox because Vista only likes to be run on one set of hardware
-- as soon as you change the hardware configuration you need to
relicense or something along those lines. Virtualisation will present
a different set of hardware to booting natively, so if you want to
switch between the virtual hardware and booting natively it's a pain.
I've heard that there are ways around this, though I have no idea what
they are.

I'd suggest Virtualbox as a desktop virtualisation tool on Linux.

Russell