How do you boot Windows into a Terminal Window while having Linux up?

[James Lee Bell]

Hmm. This is just thinking about this off top of my head, but I just 
read something in the latest Linux journal talking about using a cli 
command like "startx /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -- :1" to crank up a basic X 
session with nothing but a plain ole xterm running on it, and have it 
run on the second (":1") X session (i.e. reachable via ctrl-alt-f8 key 
sequence).

So why couldn't you use VMware by putting a script in your .bashrc that 
does something like "startx /blah/blah/vmware (insert options for full 
screen mode and running a specific (say windows) virtual machine here)"? 
 That way, when you login, you automatically get a virtual windows (or 
whatever) machine running on the second session, that you can then use 
the ctrl-alt-f7 or 8 sequence to switch between your sessions.

Am I nuts, or would that work very similarly to what Mario is describing?

Mario Hines wrote:

>VMWare is not the program.  You can't use VMWare in a
>terminal window such as tty4.  Is there any way to do
>it in boot options to set it where another partition
>boots up at the same time except it boots into a
>different terminal, such as tty3 or tty4.  Is there
>any boot options that can specify a solution like
>that.
>
>Mario S. Hines
>
>--- Dallas Helquist <dallas@oldbrownjeep.net> wrote:
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Mario Hines" <mario_stanley@yahoo.com>
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>>>To anyone,
>>>     A friend of mine informed me that you can
>>>      
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>>boot
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>>>Windows into a terminal window while having Linux
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>>up
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>>>in the background.  What boot options would you
>>>      
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>>have
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>>>to specific to achieve this goal?  This would be a
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>>big
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>>>help to me.  Thanks.
>>>      
>>>
>>Sounds like he might be using vmware
>>(http://www.vmware.com)  You can use it
>>to run an OS within an OS, and you can run the
>>"guest" os within a window if
>>you desire.  They have versions for both Linux and
>>W2k that allow you to
>>boot lots of different OS's (linux, bsd, w2k etc.).
>>
>>-dallas
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>>>Mario S. Hines, MCP
>>>ACT Computer Solutions
>>>
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