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On Thursday 03 April 2008, luis jure wrote: |
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> El Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:12:15 +0200 |
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> "b.n." <brullonulla@×××××.com> escribió: |
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> > My experience with vmware itself (I use vmware-player and that known |
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> > website that creates images, I don't remember the url) is a lot |
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> > smoother. However I never tried to run a system already installed on |
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> > another partition. |
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> that's a good question. does anyone know if vmware-player can run a |
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> system already installed on a different partition? |
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> > I've never tried Virtualbox, but I heard a lot of praise on it. Can |
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> > it run a system installed on a disk partition? |
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> |
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> i just discovered virtualbox, it looks like an interesting alternative. |
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> has anyone tried it? after reading michael's experience i'm not very |
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> enthusiastic about installing vmware... |
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I am about to try virtualbox on my wifes machine. According to the manual you |
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can run an existing installation (using raw disk access) but a number of |
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other problems make this less of a practical solution for me; e.g. you must |
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shut the VM down before you can dual boot into it normally, you have to |
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register it in VM afresh, etc. There may be workarounds to the registration |
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issue though: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-579333.html |
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What I haven't worked out yet is this. Can I create an image from the |
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original installation and use this with the VM? How do I go about this? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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