The pest again

[Derek Broughton]

Steven Davies-Morris wrote:

> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 11:58 -0700, Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
>>> Is this now a dual-boot Ubuntu/WinXP system?  I get the distinct
>>>  impression that you are expecting WINE to magically give you
>>> access to the "Windows side" of a dual-boot system.  Which is not
>>> what it does at all.
>> 
>> That said, if the OP wants to have access to his existing Windows
>> install and run that in a window under Ubuntu, this can be done
>> with virtualization. At least vmware supports it (with may a bit of
>> Windows profile fiddling), I don't know about other virtualization
>> solutions like Virtualbox or others.
>> 
>>> <http://www.winehq.org/>
>> 
>> Also: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/wine
> 
> Yup. I use Virtualbox myself for the few things I have to have that
> won't run via WINE.

But not in the way that Mario suggests.  VMWare has "raw disk" support,
allowing you (if you feel lucky) to run Windows from it's own partition. 
Virtualbox only allows you to run it off a virtual disk image.
-- 
derek