On Tuesday 15 September 2009, David Suna wrote: > I just bought a new Gateway laptop that comes with Windows Vista (and a > free upgrade to Windows 7). I want to be able to run both Linux (Ubuntu > is my preferred distribution) and Windows (Vista for now, Windows 7 in > the future) using virtualization. I have not gotten into virtualization > until now so I wanted recommendations about how to go about doing this.
Does anyone have up-to-date information regarding the possibility of using the existing installed Vista partition as a a VMWare (or similiar) client under Linux ? What I mean is - leave the existing Vista installation alone, install Linux on a separate partition (creating a multi-boot configuration), configure VMWare to use the Vista partition as a client. I have done this sort of thing in the past with older versions of Windows, but haven't done it recently. I like this setup because if something doesn't work under the Windows virtual machine, you can boot into Windows and check it out there. One of the reasons I haven't used this setup recently is because I have SCSI disks, and VMWare has a problem using the Windows partition as a client when the Windows partition is on a SCSI disk. I am very interested to know if anyone has information that could help me. At the moment, if I need to run something under Windows, I have to reboot :-(. > > >From what I have read so far I have the following options: > > 1. Host on Windows using VMWare (either VMware Player or Workstation) > > 2. Host on Windows using Microsoft Virtual PC > > 3. Host on Linux using VMWare, Xen etc but then I have to deal with > installing Windows since the laptop comes with it but does not have > separate installation disks > > > Recommendations for or against any of the above or information about > other options that I left out would be appreciated. > > > Thanks, -- The day is short, and the work is great, | Aharon Schkolnik and the laborers are lazy, and the reward | is great, and the Master of the house is | aschkol...@gmail.com impatient. - Ethics Of The Fathers Ch. 2 | 054 3344135 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
