I use VMwareWorkstation-5.5.2-29772, but this configuration has been in
place for about 2 years, so back as far as 5.0 or 5.1. I've had no
problems with it.
In the fairly near future I'm considering replacing the raw partition
with a normal linux file based one, ie. run windows in a vm under linux
normally. Practically the only thing I need widows for is outlook....
and if crossover office ever nails that down... I'll run it under linux
too.
If the group wanted a presentation of that I'd be happy to oblige.. but
it will be pretty short!
wcn
Nick Wiltshire wrote:
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 :)
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