Linux dual boot?

[Eric Shubert]

Eric Shubert wrote:
> 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)

This part just hit home. Windows will have a problem switching 
configurations due to hardware differences. I don't know of a way around 
that. Linux shouldn't have much of a problem with this though.

>> 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.
> 


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