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- BlackAdderIII, on 10/23/2007, -0/+9"""Do yourself a favor and run Linux in VMWare under Windows... ...As a bonus, you can still run the Windows games that dont like virtualization."""
...and completely negate any security advantages of linux by having a windows kernel, packet filter, security policies and vulnerabilities facing the network.
The games might be nice, but if you're running windows on the real metal, you do throw linux security out the window. - davr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6duggmirror completely ruins the formatting, and mashes all the commandline examples together, making it unreadable.
- flickmaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5brundlefly76: Yes there is, it's called not being logged in as root, where as in Windows you are always logged in as an admin...
- Aethra, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Maybe now I can switch permanently and not have to worry about loosing a couple of key apps or to keep switching back and forth between OSes.
- Two9A, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Strange how you say I rehased the article at Motin: I've never seen it in my life.
Hell, I'd probably never have written this if I knew that article existed. Where were you a month ago, damn it? ;) - diggapleaze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5my apologies, I should not have accused you of copying content (not that it should matter anyway). I jumped the gun. I guess I thought they were too similar :)
- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/disks_dualboot_ws.html#1046312
- woohoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I did this using VirtualBox instead. It does pretty much the same what VMware does. The only problem was that VMware refused to work on my laptop (the app didn't even start), while VirtualBox worked almost flawlessly. Kudos to the programmers at InnoTek for writing VirtualBox and releasing it free for personal use.
- davr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Good job hosting on your DSL line :P
- Two9A, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Didn't take long for the Digg effect to kick in; sorry for the slow load times, guys. I'll see if I can get the throttle turned up a notch.
- Two9A, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You'd be surprised. I run this setup on a 1GHz laptop, and XP runs perfectly fine. It does slow down a touch if you open too many applications, but that's more an issue with the 128MB allocated RAM than the 1GHz.
- myfanwy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it would be awesome if someone wrote a script/app+gui to extract the values and set this up for me.........
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This is very very nice, I've been looking for this exact information for awhile. I don't know if people truly appreciate how hard this information is to come by.
- GreenStar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I read some place that if we use different(vmware) hardware profile to use existing installed windows xp then windows will ask again to register our windows license and we need to call M$ tech support to do that !!! can any one confirm?
- arekarek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"I did this using VirtualBox instead."
How did you do that? - ZareMedia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've been trying to do this for the past 3 weeks, great find!
- BobbyOnions, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2One thing I'd add is that you get MUCH better performance from a Windows guest if you use a native partition for Windows' pagefile.sys, even if you use .vmdk file(s) for all of Windows' filesystems.
Note that using an external disk or partition screws your chances of shrinking any .vmdk-based disk for that particular VM though (in VMWS, at least). In this case, temporarily detach the physical partition, shrink the .vmdk(s) and re-attach. - johnstar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3vmware is very fast because it is not emulating the cpu and with multi-core computers commonplace it can have a dedicated cpu!
- drewskyjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is BRILLIANT! I'd also like to see the reverse of this...Linux running off of a partition in Windows. I would spend more time using my Linux partiton if I did not habve to leave windows. Like at work I have to use Windows for most tasks, but things I figure out how to do in Linux over time will let me work more in Linux. I know, I could just run a VM of Linux in Windows, but I have Ubuntu installed and reasonably config-ed, and sometimes I want all of my horsepower for use natively in Ubuntu. Ideally, setting this up both ways (each could be guest or host) would give even greater flexibility.
- johnstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2windows 2000 runs the best in vmware lower memory footprint, vmware tools works. :)
- starquake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3VMWare converter is not very useful in this case the host operating system is Linux, because you would have to install another Windows partition:
"VMware Converter can run on Windows NT SP4, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Windows XP Professional." - starquake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This should be very easy to do. AFAIK Linux doesn't keep a hardware table or anything that gets confused if it boots from other hardware. Try using the physicial partition directly as in this article.
- aleemmohamed, on 11/20/2007, -0/+1Getting error message in Vmplayer that says that VMPLAYER is not able to find vmdk file. my hard disk is /dev/sda in linux, so I changed that part of the vmdk. Looks very useful, but doesnt work for me yet.
- arekarek, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1i haven't checked it myself (yet), but here it is http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=769883
- brainxs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Perfect solution! Will download vmware and try it...
- Rocketmac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2First off. It's P2V (Physical to Virtual), that the guy above was talking about.
Secondly, you can run VMWare GSX on a 1.4GHz, 1GB RAM and 40GB HD. However, more RAM and diskspace the better. (Intel Core Duo is nice as well).
Third, this is not new technology, and actually pretty easy.
As far as drivers go, they show up as AMD chipset drivers in windows (2k and newer).
What I do on my Intel Core 2 Duo machine is that I have windows 2000 professional running VMWare Workstation. this will allow me to run Windows 2k, FreeBSD and Windows XP Pro all on the same laptop. I also have a partition to share between the guest Operating Systems and the Windows 2000 Professional OS. - Two9A, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Linux indeed doesn't have hardware profiles in the same sense as Windows; multiple driver sets can be compiled into the kernel without conflict. Just make sure to recompile with the VMware-specific drivers in place (IDE, Ethernet and such), and you should be good to blast.
- Two9A, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I didn't have that problem: from what I hear, it's only major changes like a new CPU or hard drive that force reactivation. Since VMware's most major component is probably a new PCI driver, it seems to fall under the threshold (I didn't get asked to reactivate, at least).
- tcdk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Coral cache seems to work:
http://oopsilon.com.nyud.net:8080/Running-a-Windows-Partition-in-VMware - juliob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2As far as I know, this does NOT work with SATA drives. VMware cannot directly read physical (RAW) partitions from a SATA drive. And there is no timeline for such SATA RAW support.
- jtroyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Current version of above VMware documentation (for Workstation 5.5 instead of 4): http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_disk_dualboot.html
- diggapleaze, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3sorry to be a wet blanket but this guy took most of his info from http://www.motin.eu/www/mirror/physvmware/ and rehashed it poorly. For example, his tutorial only works if you have an ide hard drive; you're screwed if you have scsi.
I would also highly recommend http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/disks_dualboot_ws.html#1046312 to get a how-to straight from the horse's mouth.
Just a heads up for those who are actually going to try this. - nicheweapons, on 02/21/2009, -0/+0same here. gonna be fun experimenting :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-p1fT81KCI - pyrojoe42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yeah, he just might have done that for a reason.
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1exactly pyro, took it down because of that ;)
- Two9A, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0geronimo: Thanks for taking the time out to mirror, while I was having issues with the unexpected frontpaging; and apologies by proxy for putting undue strain on your box :)
- Two9A, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There we go, people: a good and kind friend has offered hosting, which I now redirect to for this particular article. Have fun.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Or just patch in KVM so it'll run at native speed.
- Acglaphotis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0With av, firewall and anti-spyware what cpu cycles are left for a linux vm?
- kevpatts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've got windows installed on an nForce 570 raid striped array. Is there any way for me to mount this?
- floyd6, on 05/24/2008, -0/+0http://www.genericsmed.com
http://www.generics.ws - FuzzyCat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2
P2V blows chunks. When you run it, it suggests that you use a 3rd party app to do the imaging. All P2V does is install a few basic drivers, it's not even free and it's certainly not worth paying for. - brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@blackadder
Windows vulnerabilities are not a functional problem for experienced users. Run your AV, Firewall, and dont download anything you dont trust - that rule goes for all operating systems.
There isnt anything in Linux which prevents a source Makefile from erasing your hard disk - it just isnt as popular ;) - Two9A, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's true that Win2k runs pretty nicely in a VM, needing less RAM than a default XP install. My XP's a little tweaked though: almost all services off, and other optimisations applied. It seems to run fine.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Anybody know how to run osx in xp?
- kraln, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This site is running off of 30k DSL. Win.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6Or you could skip all that non-sense and just use VMWare Converter.
http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/converter/
It'll take a physical OS partition and turn it into a vmware image. - geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1500 - Internal Server Error
It was fate, this information for some reason doesn't want to be free.
You can use this link for the next few hours:
http://64.69.
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39.80/vmware/index.html
Just copy and paste those two parts together and put it in your browser. Maybe someone can make this more permanent. - SammyJr, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Digg for a Linux article that doesn't mention Ubuntu.
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