RHEL and Windows simultaneously?

Wed Apr 12 08:21:10 EDT 2006

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:07:33AM -0400, nmeyers at javalinux.net wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:39:05AM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> > I currently have my system booting Windows XP installed on a 40 Gig IDE 
> > drive.  I'm going to add an 80 Gig IDE drive to the system, and plan to 
> > RHEL on it.   I'd ultimately like to make RH the primary OS and be able to 
> > boot the existing installation of XP in a window within RH (not 
> > dual-boot).
> > 
> > I presume there is a program within RH or the Linux world to permit this?
> > 
> > I initially thought of VMWare, but that is a self-contained 
> > software computer.
> 
> Not sure I understand why you're excluding VMWare - what you're describing
> is exactly what VMWare does. I'm not positive, but VMWare may be the
> only one of the bunch that will run an OS installed on a partition,
> without requiring you to create a virtual drive on the host system's
> filesystem.

Thinking a bit more about it, perhaps I understand what you want. You
want your Window XP to run on the raw hardware, rather than a virtual
system, while RH is also running? If so... that isn't going to happen
with any solution.

Nathan

> 
> Nathan
> 
> > 
> > What are my options?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Scott
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