[ltp] vwmare booting the windows partition on T43?

[Jeffrey L. Taylor]

Quoting Jiang Qian <qian2@fas.harvard.edu>:
> Hi All:
> I wonder whether anyone has succeeded doing the following on a T43: 
> on a dual boot system, booting a windows partition that comes with the 
> computer from a linux partition using vmware, maybe workstation 
> version. I ask for this specific set up because it's rumored that 
> 
> 1) vmware boot windows partition residing on IDE easily drive, whereas 
> T43 using some really PATA/SATA driver interface for its hard drive.
> 
Rumor has it that using VMware and raw disks (a real Windows
partition, not a Linux file AKA a virtual disk) is non-trivial with
VMware workstation 5.  The person who told me this suggested I look at
the discussions/forums on the VMware web site.  I have not verified
this, except to find that it didn't work out of the box.  I have no
problem with installing Windows on a parition and a virtual disk on
the same computer with a single license.

HTH,
  Jeffrey