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On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:08:39PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > 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. you need to be careful when using a native parition. You may have issues booting the native Win98 partition once you have booted it in vmware. At work i booted win2k from an existing partition, and recently my install got hosed from accedentially booting into win2k nativily. Now i can't run it natively, or through vmware. if you know you'll be doing minimal tasks with Win98 it may be best to make a new Win98 install in vmware. That'd be my advice. I used to have had VC++ running in vmware with no problems. --brad > > -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. > > -- > > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> > > Associate Director > > Boston Linux and Unix user group > > http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 > > PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > Discuss at blu.org > > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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