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Windows installs drivers for the hardware it detects. VMWare emulates hardware. If you installed Windows natively (i.e. not in VMWare), then the drivers it has does not match the hardware for the virtual environment. Result? BSOD. Fix? Probably hardware profiles. Same goes for Linux. xorg.conf is configured for the video card/monitor of the physical hardware. Opening this system from within VMWare, which has an emulated video card/monitor results in a mismatch. Ergo, gui mode is not stable. I bet command line mode works fine, and fixing xorg.conf to match the vmware specs would likely get the graphical mode working as well. The Error 17 is also a result of the simulated environment. Picture this sample drive config: /dev/hda1 - windows partition /dev/hda2 - linux partition VM for Linux - /dev/hda1 - Linux partition. (do you see the problem yet?) Error 17 simply says the partition info does not match what Grub is set up for. You need to work out some way so that the virtual environment matches the physical environment. THIS is why the Physical drive approach is considered an Advanced feature. There are other considerations than simply pointing at the physical drive. Also, you have to imagine each virtual machine as a stand alone box - without consideration of the other virtual machines (or even the physical hardware in most cases). This is the view the VMs take, and you have to treat things accordingly. You can't expect a VM that has a single hard drive to know there are two physical drives. (there's a hint in that last statement - maybe add a second drive to your VM???? ) But again, I have not done this myself, so I could be completely wrong. Take the above with a degree of skepticism. Shawn Mitchell Brown wrote: > Thanks Shawn. I actually poked around further after sending my email, > and discovered thats exactly how you do it. > In theory, it works EXCELLENT. In Windows, when I try and bootup Ubuntu > (running on my other partition) - the loading bar completes to load, but > then the screen corrupts (gets all scrambled with lines) and appears to > stall. On the other side of things, whenever I try and load up Windows > via Ubuntu, Windows BSOD's just after its loading bar finishes. Odd. Any > ideas? > > On a comic note: what is error 17? When I'm in Ubuntu and try and bootup > Ubuntu (yes, the same one I'm actively booted on!! ;) ), Grub gives > error 17 before it even attempts the suicidal plan... failsafe? > > mb > > On 11/2/06, *Shawn* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > 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 iD8DBQFFSaGV2B6Swl9qN24RAmRHAJ4395+zx/ISBppraN35YW3DMBNKUgCgyBye E/saja0ArznwPEbZZOo1Hu0= =21wb -----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
