[ILUG] VMWare

[Mark Finlay]

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 22:16, Steve Jacobs wrote:
> I decided to mess around a bit with vmware - mostly because I would like 
> to run Linux as my main os but still switch to Windows without a reboot 
> to use a couple of programs that are important to me -  Dreamweaver, and 
> flash mostly.
> 
> I already have set my pc up as dual booting - two 40gig hd's - Suse 
> Linuxon one, and windows on the other. I've loaded vmare on Linux as the 
> host - but can't figure out how to "mount" the windows disk as a virtual 
> machine. Anyone else out there using VMware with any experience in this?
It is much more advisable to have an installation of windows just for
vmware. If you use a pre-existing windows installation it will all go
horribly wrong. Just create a blank virtual disk and install windows
onto it through vmware.

Mark

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