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RTFM VMWare question



You can use either Linux or NT/W2k/XP as the VMWare Host machine.
You canot use Win9x as a VMWare host, so you'll need to use Linux.

You _CAN_ run Win98 as a guest OS off a raw/local partition, but
only on an IDE disk.

-derek

"Jerry Feldman" <gaf at blu.org> writes:

> Just a quick VMWare question so I don't have to learn to read :-)
> Given, Linux and Windows(9x) installed. Does VMWare install under Linux, 
> and do I need to reinstall Windows. Or do I need to install VMWare first?
> 
> The question is really twofold:
> First, My current desktop system is now tripple booting. I'm doing a test 
> install of SuSE8.0 just to make sure everything works. I use Windoz only to 
> talk to ATTBI customer disservice (which is infrequent). 
> 
> Secondly, I may purchanse a new laptop if mine is too expensive to repair, 
> and I would probably want to use VMWare. The reason is that I am teaching a 
> course in C at NEU this fall, and the last time I tought it, one of my 
> students was having trouble compiling a C program under Visual C++, which 
> was a configuration issue, but I did not have a solution. So, if I get a 
> new laptop, I should have enough cycles to run either VMWare or Win4Lin. 
> -- 
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