Run your EXISTING Windows Installation on Ubuntu with Vmware Player

[Derek Broughton]

mtyoung wrote:

> Where did you see a reference to SATA drives?
> 
> If true that's bad for me since I wanted to install it on a SATA drive.
> Now I have Ubuntu on an old 20G ATA drive I, and XP on a 160G SATA. I
> wanted to install the latest Ubuntu on another 200G SATA (I'm still
> running 6.04)

You can install XP on a virtual disk, it's just doing it with a physical
partition that's a pain.

If you googled "vmware physical SATA" I think you'd find a ton of links, but
this one is good:

http://blog.faqs.it/?p=23

It can be done, it's just not as simple as with an IDE, and I haven't
accomplished it yet.  
-- 
derek