[lug] Linux | VMware | Xen question..

[Ken MacFerrin]

Hugh Brown wrote:
> 
> 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.

Would this still allow me to also access Windows natively though?
-Ken