I think my posts got blended with a dual boot the 2nd drive will allow
you to preserve your finicky windows 7 bootsector
It can help with some performance issues to have your virtual drives
stored on a seperate physical drive from the OS especially in vmware
server on windows it can make your system crawl
I do alot of weird vm things just to try them and there is a setting
that looks like you can map a virtual machine directly to a physical
storage device but I'm out of room to test this fully but it would be
immense to have a dual boot with vm abilities for you to access your
non dominant os
That's been my holy grail of vm/dual boot (just above accelerated
graphics in a vm)
On 5/17/10, Bryan O'Neal <
Bryan.ONeal@theonealandassociates.com> wrote:
> Stephen why the external drive vrs a virtual drive using virtual box
> or VMWare? Just seeing if you have something cool you can do with it I
> have not thought of.
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So far all great suggestions. If you can afford it i would suggest a
>> new/extra HDD for your Linux install and setting it to be your first
>> drive (after you install windows with the "spare drive" unplugged
>>
>> That way you have a drive you can torture and alter to your hearts
>> content, and you don't have to worry about breaking the boot sector on
>> your win7 install. It is not repairable, you can back it up with any
>> number of tools (i like clonezilla)
>>
>> and for a bistro to learn with, Depending on your personal technical
>> masochism you can install Gentoo. It made me want to chuck my computer
>> out the window during install, but when i was done I knew a great deal
>> more about the underbelly of Linux, and Gentoo is pretty well
>> documented.
>>
>> but the extra HDD i think is a very good suggestion. especially when
>> learning.
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