On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:11:55 -0600
Stuart Maybee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Not quite sure what you are asking here. If you want to use an existing
> partition on the disk to be the backing store when installing a Windows
> Virtual Machine then that is certainly supported. The docs should show
> you the syntax to set that up in the disk specification section when
> configuring the Virtual Machine.
No.
> If you have an already installed
> instance of Windows that was installed on the metal and not under the
> hypervisor on a partition on your machine and want to run that under the
> hypervisor, then that is almost certainly not going to work due to the
> differences in the actual hardware that windows was configured and
> installed on and the Virtual Machine presented by the hypervisor.
This is what I am interested in. I've pulled hard drives from machines
and moved them between different machines and booted windows so I don't
understand the issue in general.
mph
>
>
> James Cornell wrote:
> > Michael Hunter wrote:
> >> Is there a mechanism for running windows from an existing partition
> >> under Solaris? If so can somebody please point me at the right manual
> >> section or FAQ section that covers doing this. If not then why?
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >> mph
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> > That would require access to the raw device through respective /dev/dsk
> > entries. I don't think you can currently use an existing disk, but you
> > can use a raw cdrom so it might be possible. Boris might know.
> >
> > James
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