I have a similar situation on my laptop. A windoze and a linux partition. I have vmware installed on both images. When I'm running linux I can start a virtual machine to boot my windows partition using the "raw disk". You gotta be careful never to boot the same system as your host is running (ie. boot linux form linux) or there is no hope for your disk! In windows I defined two boot configs: native and vmware so that it doesn't reconfigure it's drivers every time I boot. I found that I had to give the user that starts vmware r/w access to my /dev/hdc so that vmware will run non-root.
vmware rocks. wcn Gustin Johnson wrote: > Hardware is still abstracted out. You get really good CPU performance > but I am not sure about the rest of the system , particularly your video > and sound cards. My understanding is that Windows drivers need direct > access to the hardware, but since I don't really care I have not looked > in to this :) > > Also, these CPUs are available today. The Core 2 chips support it, as > do some of the latest AMD AM2 (apparently the Turion in my laptop has > the virtualization support, but Xen has not quite got the support for > AMD "Pacifica" yet). Also, power management, CPUFreq (aka Speedstep or > Powernow) are broken in Xen the last time I checked. > > Cheers, > > Nick Wiltshire wrote: > >> On Saturday 07 October 2006 1:22 am, Gustin Johnson wrote: > >>> Also, I don't think that Xen is really going to help you with your > gaming. > >> Maybe I misunderstood but from my reading it will allow both OSes > access to > >> the hardware, but I'll need to buy a new computer first, which I > don't think > >> is available to the general public yet :) > >> > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
