So why not just install vmware server and have lots of different images for your various systems? Why would you need raw disk access? If you wanted to multi-boot, you could always install a different OS on a different drive and boot into that if you wanted that OS exclusively.
Chris On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Andrew Farnsworth <farn...@gmail.com>wrote: > new machine is not a laptop and is not a mac. It will probably be a fairly > heavily loaded i7 machine with several(*) TB of disk space. I want to run > it as a server / workstation where I can run multiple VMs to support things > like DB [Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, & PostgreSQL], Web [apache & IIS], > App[Tomcat, Websphere, Weblogic], and other apps. The machine will have > something like 12 Gb RAM and a hefty, but not insane, video subsystem. > While I don't plan on using it as a workstation often, I will on occasion. > > Andy > > * several = 8+ TB of physical disk space. > > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Chris McQuistion <cmcquist...@watkins.edu > > wrote: > >> Why don't you just keep doing that? Is the new laptop not a Mac? >> >> Chris >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Andrew Farnsworth <farn...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Thanks everyone, >>> Yes, what I am looking at doing is buying a new computer with OS >>> installed and then, before ever booting it, put in a blank HD and install >>> linux. Then use VM software of some kind to boot off the original HD with >>> that other OS. What would be ideal would be to do what I did on my Macbook >>> for over a year, dual boot machine where I could boot MacOSX or WindowsXP >>> and if I booted MacOSX I could then run WindowsXP in a VM off the other boot >>> partition. It worked very well. >>> >>> Andy >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
