[lug] Linux | VMware | Xen question..

[Ken MacFerrin]

thad wrote:
> Im running WinXP on HPDV1000 and this notebook is not mine but my sister 
> let me used it so long I wont be doing any alteration in its partition. 
> I like working Linux and BSD so what I did is get a VMPlayer and Ubuntu 
> Linux from http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/community.html. I also 
> got Puppy Linux and minimal BSD from 
> http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/ This work fine with me and my 
> plan is to set-up Samba in Linux so I can have a shared folder that will 
> work for host OS (XP) that is NTFS and guest OS.
> 
> VMWare player is great and it provides alternative solution for dual 
> booting with less complexity specially in dealing with newer hardware. I 
> just had my wireless-g work with it. I agree with you HAL is handled 
> very well, my only problem the clock wont sync but over all I can work 
> on everthing I want to do in Linux.
> 
> If you want build your own VM, this is a website though I have not 
> played with it yet:
> 
> http://www.consolevision.com/members/dcgrendel/vmxform.html
> 

Thanks to all for the responses.  I'm just about done compiling and 
tweaking the new Gentoo install so I should be able to find time to load 
up VMware & WinXP this week.  I'm going to try putting Win on a 
secondary disk and using the multiple hardware profiles approach to 
support both VMware and native access to XP Pro.  For curious Gentoo 
users, there's an experimental ebuild for VMware Server (the new, free 
replacement to VMware GSX Server) located here:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122500

Wish me luck :)
-Ken