[ale] VM ?

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 21:56 -0500, Jonathan Rickman wrote:

> You can configure vmware server to use the physical partitions on the
> disk. You don't need to  install a copy of either OS in a vm. Just
> install the Windows version on XP, reboot into Linux and install the
> Linux version. Now point the Linux version to your XP partition, and
> point the XP version to your Linux partition(s) and presto...you can
> "dual boot" without the boot part. 


How well does Windows XP deal with that?  Wouldn't it hit the
three-change threshold for reactivation if you try to swap from one use
case to the other (e.g., have WinXP installed on a physical partition,
and then go to boot it up in the VM)?  Or does the VMWare server do
something to prevent that, like emulate the hardware IDs found in the
system and so forth?

    ? Mike

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