On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:09:01PM -0500, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to make VMWare (or other VM software) run a
Virtual Machine off a physical hard drive or partition rather than from a VM
Image?
In regards to the 'any other vm software'.. I think you can use kvm now
VMware can use a physical disk, just create a virtual disk image, and
pick the physical disk.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 13:29, Bucky 'Igneous' Wolfe
pmigne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:09:01PM -0500, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to make VMWare (or other
I know that older versions of VMware server would let you do that, but they
removed that ability in more recent versions.
You can user vmware's free converter to convert an OS off a physical drive
into an image file, though. I've done this a few times to do P2V
conversions. I even used it to
To give more detail, I think what you're asking about is what VMware calls
raw device mappings. You can do this under certain conditions on ESX and
ESXi but you cannot do this on VMware Server.
Chris
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Chris McQuistion
cmcquist...@watkins.eduwrote:
I know that
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
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.comwrote:
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
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],
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,
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Chris McQuistion
cmcquist...@watkins.eduwrote:
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
Well if Windows comes preinstalled on one drive, you could always just leave
that drive alone and install your other OS's on other drives.
Chris
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Chris McQuistion
Chris McQuistion wrote:
Well if Windows comes preinstalled on one drive, you could always just
leave that drive alone and install your other OS's on other drives.
Chris
Mainly because I was hoping to not have to install Window7 from
scratch. Oh well...
Andy
I did it with the beta version of Windows 7 and Ubuntu, I believe. No
problems at all, just installed Windows first and Ubuntu second.
Chris
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote:
Chris McQuistion wrote:
Well if Windows comes preinstalled on one drive, you
Howard White wrote:
Has anyone had the pleasure of creating a dual boot Windows 7 / linux
system with Grub as the boot loader??
At phreakNIC, we had multiple people create dual boots with Vista and no
problems at all. Have the fine folks in Redmond continued to play nice
or not?
I've
Not sure how well your vendor OEM windows install will work inside of a VM.
IIRC, Dell OEM windows will not boot if it can't find the Dell BIOS. Under
VMware it will most certainly not find the Dell BIOS. If its just the
generic
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote:
Has anyone had the pleasure of creating a dual boot Windows 7 / linux
system with Grub as the boot loader??
Yes, it worked fine for me. I have Ubuntu 9.10 and win7 dual booting
with no problems.
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Greg Donald
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote:
Has anyone had the pleasure of creating a dual boot Windows 7 / linux
system with Grub as the boot loader??
Yes, it worked fine for me. I have Ubuntu
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