There's is only a couple of "gotcha's" that I have found.
The first time I set it up, I could boot into XP straight from GRUB or
go into Linux and then boot XP from vmware; but something has changed
and I am not longer able to boot XP directly from GRUB. I have read that
this is a Disk Geometry issue, but I haven't had time to investigate it
more thoroughly. It work for a while until I screw up my linux file
system once because I had set grub to default to linux. What happened
was that I fired up vmware and left my machine so grub(within vmware)
booted up linux on the same partition that I was running. (2 writes make
a wrong type thing). Anyway, after reinstalling linux and vmware, I
could not get XP to boot directly from grub but still can do it from
vmware.
Secondly, I have had to call M$ twice to "re-activate" XP. VMware uses
some 'virtual' drivers so a fresh install or reinstall of XP see's too
many changes in hardware signatures. Basically this is just a pain in
the ass.
I intend to retry this configuration next week on a newer laptop next
week when time permits.
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 09:07 -0500, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On 2/8/07, Todd Patton <sail@acpdata.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 08:39 -0500, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > -snipp
> > > snip-On 2/8/07, Jonathon Conte <thesicktwist@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > I already have a Win XP partition on the machine, is there a way of using
> > > it rather than having to do a install into the VM? I.e. can the VM run the
> > > already installed XP?
> > >
> >
> > You can use vmware to boot xp from that partition while running it in
> > linux. During the setup you choose custom and then specify the physical
> > Disk location to use instead of a "virtual disk". I currently use vmware
> > server within linux to boot up my old XP partition on disk 1 patition 1.
> >
> > If you have an xp partition already on the computer why not just do a
> > dual boot?
> >
>
> That is presently what I do, but I need to jump back and forth between Linux
> and Windows, I figure if I can but XP in a VM of some sort, then I just move
> in and out of the VM, as I suppose it just appears as another app on the
> disktop... I only use it for a few apps, so I am not running it all of the time,
> but when I am, I also need to move back and forth between the Linux
> and windows sides.
>
>
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