Russell said: > Thanks, it sounds promising. If i install win2k as the guest OS on vmware > which is in turn installed on linux, is there a way to copy the whole > win2k installation into vmware, or do i need to re-install everything > again?
you should reinstall everything again. VMWare has the ability to run off a "raw" disk(I think IDE only..) which would technically allow you to boot into the "Guest OS" on the real hardware(via dual boot) as well as with vmware, but especially on MS systems I wouldn't reccomend it since the virtual hardware provided by vmware is probably going to be totally different then that provided by your real hardware wrecking havok on the system. now a linux system on the other hand could fairly easily be tuned to work in both enviornments(X would be the only snag, but real easy to work around). But even then I reccomend sticking to reinstalling in the virtual enviornment and keeping it within vmware. You get the bonus of being able to run the disk in undo mode, meaning your free to screw the guest OS up all you want, power it off, power it on again and it's instantly restored to the state of last power on, very very handy! I've been usin vmware on linux since they announced their first beta, have run win95, win98, win2000, nt4, suse, corel, freebsd, debian, solaris 7, redhat, and probably a couple other OSs on it as well. always worked flawlessly for me. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
