Man I'd love to see a presentation on that :) I'll give it a shot when I get some time...does the VMWare version matter as far as being capable of this?
I just had another thought, my Windows partition is NTFS, is that an issue? I'm pretty n00bish with VMWare :) Nick On Friday 20 October 2006 14:34, Wendell Nichols wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
