Steve wrote:
> Some one on the list said tehy were running vmware w/ NT on a seperate drive.
> Do you have to install the os after installing vmware or can you just plug the
> drive w/ the os already on it into the box w/ vmware aand point vmware to it?
>
> TIA
> Steve
>
Steve,
VMware does support booting raw partitions. Suggest that you create another
profile for NT when it is running inside the VM and one for when your not running
inside a VM; i.e. right click on My Computer and choose profiles, then select the
Hardware Profiles tab and then click the 'copy' button while the Original
Configuration is highlighted, then just type what you want to name the
configuration (VM Configuration) then when you boot the raw partition in the VM
choose this new configuration and then install the tools and svga driver and
another drivers you need (sound, AMD PCNET PCI Ethernet Adapter, etc.). I also
suggest editing the boot.ini file and adding a line like
'multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00
[64 Megs]" /MAXMEM=64' the important thing here is the /MAXMEM=64 switch I do this
because that is all the memory I assign the Virtual Machine even though the real
machine has 128. For more information on boot.ini settings suggest you look at
http://sysinternals.ovb.ch/bootini.htm.
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T. S. Collins
QA Engineer
VMware Inc.
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