Stephen wrote:
> What i personally envision for my desires is a dual boot system that
> can run the non-active system in VM. so if i boot windows i can run my
> Linux install in vm, or if o boot Linux i can run windows in VM.
That would be possible if your Linux and Win are on their own drives.
Raw Devices works with raw drives, but I'm not sure about raw partitions
(I have a hunch raw paritions might be possible, but I haven't seen
anyone claiming to have done it yet). You would need a 3rd drive to run
the host OS from, possibly a USB drive. Someone on the list here was
doing something along these lines fairly recently.
> It can be done i think but i haven't had it work out well yet... (that
> whole flipping hardware about)
>
> And ext and reiser fs's handle the weird disk load needed for OS/VM
> allot better and Linux as a whole doesn't dink with the disk anywhere
> near as much as windows. so if windows is your host this is my
> personal suggestion if you have the budget for it. Ideally i would
> love to se wine take such a hold that i can drop windows entirely, but
> i think that is unlikely to happen. MS is developing their back-end
> strongly and its to much for the wine team to really stay on top of
> unless some of those API's are open sourced. but they may prove me
> wrong yet.
I'm a little surprised that anyone would choose any Win OS as a VM host.
I'm not surprised that VMs on Windoze have performance issues.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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