No, you don't modify your partitions or anything. You just run vmware, start
a new VM, and then you basically have a 'new machine' in which to install
what you want. I believe you have to allocate a certain amount of space for
the 'virtual drive', just like you allocate RAM and which hardware to give
the VM. One really slick thing you can do on a dual boot machine, is assign
the raw partions to the VM. So on my notebook, I can use winxp to run my RH8
dual boot partition in a VM, say, to get web/php/mysql while I develop on my
Homesite IDE. Then later I can boot into linux for real, and everything is
all there and works the same. It's incredibly sexy.

> Actually, I am not thinking I need a filesystem for VMWare.  
> I just wasn't
> sure whether the Windows Workstation VM would have to reside 
> on a specific
> filesystem.  My goal is to have a couple of Windows VMs with 
> which to test
> connectivity to my apps and database.  I thought that I would 
> need to create
> an fs "winxp" of size "xxxxMb" and mount it.  Then when I 
> create my VM, I
> would create it on that fs.  If I am in error, please let me 
> know before I
> get too far and can't come back.
> Thanks!


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