[ltp] vwmare booting the windows partition on T43?

[David F Bakker]

VMWare GSX is going to be free soon.

Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

>Quoting Jiang Qian <qian2@fas.harvard.edu>:
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>>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 
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>>1) vmware boot windows partition residing on IDE easily drive, whereas 
>>T43 using some really PATA/SATA driver interface for its hard drive.
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>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.
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>HTH,
>  Jeffrey
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