VMWare Server - Use Physical WinXP?

[Jim Smith]

Jim Smith wrote:
> Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
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>> Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
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>>> Rapael Morcha wrote:
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>>>> 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/ 
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>>> 	Thanks. I'll try that this weekend, alog with creating a new VM but 
>>> seleting IDE instead of SCSI...
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>> 	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...
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> 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
>
>   
Figured it out on my own. Shouldn't try to do stuff when sleep-deprived.
A quick "sudo whereis vmware" showed me where to look and delete.

Jim