> It's taken me about a year but have finally gotten comfortable enough w/ linux
> to take this step. I want to put winblows in it's rightful place and run it as
> an app on my linux box. I have 3 mission critical apps that I have to run on
> winblows and the rest of my work is now being done faithfully by my linux box.
> So, I bought a second ide drive for my linux box. I want set it up as a slave,
> put windows on it and run it through Vmware. I was wondering if the Hatters on
> the list could give me the skinny on the do's and dont's for this as I'd like to
> make this as painless as possible
I just did something similar to this on my machine at work yesterday.
For reference, it's got a 20G IDE drive in it, split in half, 10G for
windows, 10G for linux. I wouldn't have made the windows partition
nearly so large, but it's not like I need the space, and other people
use this machine (unfortunately :(). Anyway, it's almost always booted
into linux, but I still need to use windows occasionally. I already had
windows installed on the first half of the drive, but it seems to me
that you could just as easily do the install WITHIN vmware. Anyway,
vmware supports raw disk access in both the current and older versions,
but since you said you were using an IDE drive, the version doesn't
matter (you need 2.0 for SCSI raw disks).
If windows is already installed on the drive you want to use with
vmware, you need to do one thing before messing with vmware. That is to
boot the windows partition natively and created a hardware profile for
vmware. If you don't do this, it'll try to use the same profile for
vmware and native windows, and consequently have different devices
popping up every time you boot. If you DON'T have windows installed
already, you can ignore this step.
I won't go into detail about how to use raw disks in vmware, as that is
well documented on the vmware homepage. Check this page for info,
specifically the links entitled 'Using raw disks with VMware for Linux'
and 'Configuring dual/multiboot systems to run with VMware'.:
http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/doc/disk_mem_linux.html
The one thing I'm not sure about is whether or not windows will run
with the drive set up as a slave to your linux drive. Since you DID
specify slave, I'll assume that the drive definitely does NOT have
windows on it already. I believe (have not tried) that since vmware will
represent the drive to windows as primary master if you tell it to, that
windows will NOT have a problem with the setup. I'd like to know, just
for curiosity's sake, if this works.
Perhaps this mail is a bit roundabout, looking back on it. Anyway, the
short of it is that I think what you want to do will work, just be on
the lookout for windows strangeness.
Matt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://jaeger.morpheus.net/
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