[lug] Virtual Machine?

[Jonathan Briggs]

john starkey wrote:

>>If so, can you boot Windows from another partition on the same PC, from the
>>Linux VM, or do you need to reinstall the Win O/S on the Linux partition
>>using the VM?
>>
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>VMWare will patch the kernel and make you reboot into it. At the lilo prompt you'll have a choice between kernels, VMware or not. You can use a seperate partition IIRC, or install into a virtual disk if you don't have a partition for Windows.
>
I've been running the newest version of VMware Workstation, version 3.0. 
 It doesn't require kernel patches anymore, it uses a pair of kernel 
modules: vmmon and vmnet.  Versions of these modules are included for 
most distribution kernels, and the source is included so that they can 
be compiled for non-standard kernels.

You can install as a file or partition, as John mentions.

Performance is _very_ dependent on memory.  It was slow but usable when 
I had 128 MB, but when I installed 512 MB, VMware seems to run just as 
fast as running Windows 98 on the metal.