[ltp] X22 issues

[Rob Mayoff]

+---------- On Dec 16, Erin Gilchrist said:
> It's been recommended to me that I use VMware (www.vmware.com)  to run a
> virtual copy of Linux on a Windows machine instead of doing the dual boot.

Actually you should run a virtual copy of Windows on a Linux machine.
This is the linux-thinkpad list, you know. :)

> Is there some reason that re-booting between the OS's would be better?

Whichever OS is running in the virtual machine does not have direct
hardware access. So you might have some hardware that you can't use, or
can't use fully, under the virtualized OS.

If you're going to use VMware, then running Windows as the real OS might
have the advantage that there are probably Windows drivers for all of
your hardware, but there might not be Linux drivers for all of your
hardware.



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