[TriLUG] VMware question

[Chris Merrill]

Greg Brown wrote:
> Hey all.  My question is does anyone use VMware to create a vitual Win2k
> machine running under Linux (in my case RH 8.0)?  I know this is what the
> software is supposed to do, but does anyone actually use it?

I've run NT4 under Linux, but not Win2k.  It worked great.

> That question aside, my other related question is what happens when/if Win2k
> gets hit by some kind of bomb while running under Linux via VMware?
> Hopefully just the directory where Win2k is located gets trashed, right?  I
> imagine this to be the case and I hope that when running under VMware the
> "virtual" Win2k thinks that the it's disk is just what is contained in the
> Linux directory where it is installed.

Yes, VMWare builds a 'virtual disk' for Windows (more than one, if you like)
that exists as a file in Linux.  I think you can map an entire Linux partition
as a Windows disk, but I don't know for sure.

Chris

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