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11/4/03 at 4:13pm
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OK, I'm tired of having to sneak into Windows every now and then, so I'm working on finding some solutions. I played with Crossover Office...but I don't care about running M$ programs in particular. I've downloaded vmware and have a blank slate ready to install things into it. Before I do, any advice from vmware-pros out there before I do? "Make sure you don't do XYY," etc.?

Here, the experiences with vmware have been mixed, including stories like, "...it nuked my windows partition." I think those days are over in vmware, but I just want to be certain!

Thanks.
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post #2 of 3
11/6/03 at 12:31pm

VMware emulates

VMware emulates which means its optimal operations are based on a virtual disk ( a file on ur unix file system ) and works from there. Recent versions do support native partitions, but hey, has to be installed in VMware. I have never seen somebody running the native Windows installed on their hard drives throught VMware. You can install and run windows in VMware on a native partitions, but the install and the running HAS to go throught VMware. In no way i would recommend to start YOUR native INSTALLED Windows throught VMware on linux. Reason is drivers are not the same, the cdrom and the hard disk are not seem as being the same, and the graphic drivers will fail irremediably, considering ya managed to boot.

Best advice is to launch VMware and to READ the extensive html documentation that will exlplain to you in details what is the VMware approach. If what you want to archieve is reading of files on your windows partition from linux, then a simple mount command will do that for you.

Hope that helps.
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post #3 of 3
11/23/03 at 6:37am
I use the codeweavers crossover office, just because my company uses outlook for everything.

I did use vmware and had an install of win2k running in it. I did the crossover office thing to try and remove the MS OS completely from my life.

I would use vdisk emulation also. it is much better because you do not waste any harddrive space, with an unnecessary partition. Also you can have dozens of different vdisks with different OS's on them.

The vmtools is a necessity if you want to be able to use the display adapter at a decent size. Other than that windows 2000 or newer will discover all of the virtual hardware so no drivers are necessary. It is quick and painless.

good luck
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