RHEL and Windows simultaneously?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Scott Ehrlich <scott at MIT.EDU> writes:

> I currently have my system booting Windows XP installed on a 40 Gig IDE 
> drive.  I'm going to add an 80 Gig IDE drive to the system, and plan to 
> RHEL on it.   I'd ultimately like to make RH the primary OS and be able to 
> boot the existing installation of XP in a window within RH (not 
> dual-boot).
>
> I presume there is a program within RH or the Linux world to permit this?
>
> I initially thought of VMWare, but that is a self-contained 
> software computer.

Actually, VMWare can use Raw Disks, so you can take an existing OS
installation and boot it in VMware from a secondary system.   I do
this on my laptop all the time; it's dual-boot, but 99% of the time
I run Linux and boot the windows installation as a VMware guest.

> What are my options?

-derek

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