[lug] Linux | VMware | Xen question..

Hugh Brown hugh at math.byu.edu
Fri Mar 3 15:28:38 MST 2006



On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Ken MacFerrin wrote:

> I'm upgrading the hard drives in my home desktop, which is currently a
> dual boot machine with Gentoo and Windows XP Pro.  The Windows drive is
> hardly ever used but I have to keep it around for a few applications
> needed for some consulting work.  I'm planning on doing a fresh Gentoo
> install with the new drive but would like to start running VMware or Xen
> to be able to access XP without needing a reboot.  My preferred setup
> would be to have Gentoo and XP on separate hard drives and then be able
> run Windows under VMware/Xen with Gentoo as the host OS; but also still
> be able to boot natively into Windows via Grub if necessary on occasion.
>   I've not spent much time with either VMware or Xen so I'm not sure if
> this is possible.  Any insights?
>
> Thanks,
> Ken

I haven't spent much time with vmware/xen either, but I don't believe
Windows is an officially supported option under xen.  vmware is free and
you just choose a directory to put the vm images in.  So you could
partition a drive with a linux fs, mount it and then drop the windows
vm there.

Hugh



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