Recommended solution from my job ;-) Make image of your Windows with VMware converter Remove Windows from your laptop/desktop Install VMware ESX on server Place images of your Windows (and colleagues Windows) on ESX and boot them Install favorite OS on your laptop/desktop (in my case OpenBSD) at least with rdesktop program
Now you are using your favorite OS and if you need some Windows only program,which haven't web interface or version for Unix-like you can remotely connect on ESX in to your Windows install.Everyone is happy then.You are using your favorite OS,SMS server from MS is happy,because it can connect to Windows and so on. Web interface for MS Outlook is functional good for most cases(email,calendar,contacts,..),MS Office communicator is able to run remotely,trough web interface or as plugin in Pidgin,some specific programs have web interface (eg. Remedy from BMC),most of the documents/spreadsheets/presentations you can at least open in OpenOffice or even make them in it and in case that you really need something from Windows you can connect to them trough rdesktop 2009/5/15 MANI <mm.m...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > First of all you need to know I am running OpenBSD on my laptop and PC > at home happily as sole OS, but unfortunately I need to dual boot my > PC at Office because of some proprietary softwares we need at company, > the other OS is Microsucks Windows Vista > AFAIK one of the way of dual booting is to copy openbsd.pbr on Drive C > of windows, but How can I make openbsd.pbr. and why I can not boot to > OpenBSD using bootable cd ? boot > hd0a:/bsd not working for me. > > OpenBSD is on rwd0a - rwd0f and Vista is on rwd0g and rwd0h. If I go > to shell on bootable cd and type: > > mount -t ffs /dev/wd0a /mnt > > I can mount wd0a wich is my root partition on /mnt and everythings > seems ok. So what is the easiest solution to dual booting ? > > > Regards, > Mani Malekmohammadi > > -- http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
