The pest again

[Leif Gregory]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:32:14 -0700
NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Can you point me to a howto for doing this in VMWare? I use VB (and am
> quite happy with it w/Win2KP), but I also have two systems with WinXPP
> on them; one has XP on a partition, the other has XP on it's own
> drive. Both were OEM installs, so no CD's etc & it's a pain to have
> to reboot (I use them for troubleshooting customer issues w/new
> devices etc).

I used this tutorial to set up two of my Ubuntu boxes to utilize the
existing Windows partitions on them. 

http://www.venturecake.com/a-simple-guide-to-using-your-existing-windows-install-apps-in-ubuntu/

The very important piece is at the GRUB menu to make sure you
don't let it boot your host Linux partition again as a VM. Could get
all sorts of wonky things going on as your host and VM compete to write
to the same files.

Other than that, it was a piece of cake and works great.

Note: I think the tutorial is still valid, but I did this under Gutsy
on those machines. They still work after updating to Hardy.

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