vmware player

[Thomas Kaiser]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Tony Arnold wrote:
>> I have a Windows partition on my system. Can I configure the free VMware
>> player to boot and run this Windows system under Dapper?
> 
> No.
> 
>> Or do I need
>> the full VMware product.
> 
> No. As the hardware of the VMware will differ from the hardware
> of your machine, you'll need a new installation of Windows (or
> any guest OS).
> 
> To do that, you'd need the full VMware product - the free
> VMware server would be sufficient.
No, just get a empty "VMware Virtual disk file" and config file and 
configure it to boot from CD to install what ever OS you wish.

http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/16/1940214&from=rss

or you can use qemu-img to create a empty .vmdk file and google for a 
config file

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC18

Thomas


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