On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:35:08AM -0600, Chris Montgomery wrote: > I suspect that most of the aforementioned products require having Linux > and Windows running on two systems at the same time, but I could be wrong.
Yup, you're wrong. VMware is a virtual system and allows you to run your guest operating system in a window. The guest (usually Windows but could be Linux, BSD, or others) thinks it has got the hardware all to itself, but it doesn't. You allocate memory and devices/partitions to the guest from the host (which could be either NT/Win2K or Linux). Your guest OS could crash and the host OS will keep running. You can have multiple guests running at the same time if you want (subject to how much memory you've got). You can snapshot a running guest to disk and resume it later with everything intact - you don't even need to leave your guest application! > My question, is, does a product exist that will reliably allow running > windows software while using linux on a dual-boot system? As much as I > would like to switch to using linux 100% of the time, I have too much > invested in windows software to totally abandon it right now and I have > only one machine to work on. That's what VMware and Win4Lin do. You allocate disk space to your guest OS and run both at the same time. The guest disk space (at least in VMware) can be either a Linux file or a raw partition - it's up to you. > So, is it possible to run both linux/windows programs simultaneously on a > dual-boot machine? It's not really dual-boot - it's simultaneous. Have a look at VMware's web site at http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
