The pest again

[Derek Broughton]

NoOp wrote:

> On 07/21/2008 05:44 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> 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).

No can do - if they're OEM installs they aren't going to work under VMWare
raw-disk anyway.  I know - I've been there, done that.
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derek