[ltp] Re: Xen or VMWare

David Abrahams linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:33:14 -0500


Paul Fox <pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us> writes:

> evgeni wrote:
>  > Did you try KVM[1]? This should work well if you have IntelVT enabled
>  > in your BIOS (Lenovo isn't able to build a BIOS fpr my z61m with that
>  > function *grrr*).
>  > 
>  > [1] http://kvm.sf.nt
>
> typo alert: http://kvm.sf.net

Looks nifty, really! 

But AFAICT from the (very) sparse documentation, it works by putting
the guest OS's disk image in a file.  I don't see how that will ever
allow me to boot directly into Windows in a pinch... or is there a way
to use a real disk partition for the guest OS?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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