VMWare Server - Use Physical WinXP?

Jim Smith jim at oz.net
Wed Aug 29 03:54:30 UTC 2007


Technocrook wrote:
> On 8/29/07, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>   
>>         My laptop has WinXP installed on sda1, and Ubuntu on sda2. Has anyone
>> with a similar setup used the Wizard in VMWare Server to use the WinXP
>> install as a guest to Ubuntu? To be precise, if I try this, I'm
>> wondering if the WinXP install will get hosed....
>>     
> Hi Dave
>
> I  use the same configuration in my laptop.
> WinXP in first physical partition and Ubuntu on second partition. I
> also install WinXP using VMware wizard on my Ubuntu partition. It is
> so far so good and no problem at all.
>
>   
I'm curious, I have the same situation and would like to be able to do
the same thing. Does VMWare-server use the wizard to build the virtual
machine? Did you use the WinXP or the Linux server version?

Jim




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