VMWare Server - Use Physical WinXP?

[Jim Smith]

Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>   
>> Rapael Morcha wrote:
>>     
>>> 	
>>> It's pretty straight forward.
>>> Perhaps you may want to look at [1].
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://mazimi.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/virtualization-of-an-existing-physical-partition-of-windows-within-linux/ 
>>>
>>>       
>> 	Thanks. I'll try that this weekend, alog with creating a new VM but 
>> seleting IDE instead of SCSI...
>>
>>     
>
> 	Well, tried creating a new VM this weekend, didn't have a choice to use 
> IDE for the HDD. So I loaded the SCSI driver into Windows. When I went 
> to start the VM, got an error about unable to change the power state...
> 	Another problem to chew on tonight...
>
>   
I tried to install vmware-server and was given the error message that a
part of vmware remained and must be remove before it could be installed.
Running dpkg --purge vmware produced an error message that nothing could
be found. I tried running sudo vmware-uninstall.pl and bash said it
could not be found. I appear to be stuck here.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

Jim