-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I haven't done this myself, but....
Set up a new VM using the wizard. When given the option of Typical or Custom, choose custom. Select all the options as you normally would, until... When you get to the part where you choose the Disk set up, you have three options: - - New Virtual Disk - - Existing Virtual Disk - - Physical Disk. Choose the Physical Disk. On the next screen choose the drive in question, and/or whether to use partitions. If/when you choose partitions, the next screen asks you for details. My box is giving me a permission denied error at this point, so I can't continue with "exact" instructions. But the wizard should be pretty self explanatory. The end result of this exercise is that you can run either of the OS's on a dual boot machine, and then run the other OS in a virtual machine. Any changes you make to the "guest" OS in this case, would be there when you reboot into the "other" OS (of the dual boot portion). I would suggest practicing this on a box you can spare to begin with. I can foresee problems already as the virtual machine would emulate some of the hardware, whereas the native OS would access the physical hardware directly. You may need to set up hardware profiles. You can find some of the "official" instructions at: http://pubs.vmware.com/server1/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm - - Go to Virtual Machine Guide -> Chapter 6 -> Installing an OS to a Physical Drive There are two sub items under that one that covers configuring Windows/Linux. Shawn Mitchell Brown wrote: > Is it possible to run my existing Linux partition/install in a Windows > VMware Server console? > And vice versa? > > I thought I heard Shawn say tonight this was possible - but I cannot > fathom how one would go about this. > > Midas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFSZkU2B6Swl9qN24RAolGAKCxWwlJaeSNk5wxKJ7Yj1paQ5xydACfUBny edsv0RAfujK+XhZaqGeBE+I= =/524 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
