[TriLUG] rdesktop any good?

Alan Porter porter at trilug.org
Wed Mar 19 15:21:26 EDT 2008


> There was an article somewhere a bit ago(lost link) on using vmware
> player to point to the windows partition of your dual bootable machine,
> such that you don't have to convert it and you don't have to build a new
> vm.  You modify the vmx file to point to the block location of your
> windows partition.


You have to tell Windows to use two different "hardware profiles".
Otherwise, every time you boot it using "the other method" (dual
boot vs within vmware), it'll go nuts autodetecting new hardware
and loading new drivers.

Alan





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