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[Discuss] I need some dual-booting advice
- Subject: [Discuss] I need some dual-booting advice
- From: warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:43:24 -0400
- In-reply-to: <570D1AA7.9040808@gmail.com> (Rich Pieri's message of "Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:56:23 -0400")
- References: <570BC663.6050209@gmail.com> <sjm1t6a3mbl.fsf@securerf.ihtfp.org> <570D1AA7.9040808@gmail.com>
Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> writes: > On 4/12/2016 10:59 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: >> What exactly do you mean by "Shared Virtual Machine"? Can't you create >> a /vmware partition that is owned by e.g. root:vmware_users, set mode >> 6775, and put the VM config in there? > > I hadn't thought of that but I'll give it a shot. > > Shared virtual machines are sometimes called VMware Workstation Server > mode. Shared VMs work a lot like KVM but still running in user space > instead of in kernel space or on a bare metal hypervisor. A benefit to > shared VMs is that they can be started in the background at boot time > independent of the console UI. The tradeoff is that none of the direct > system/hardware access the console UI provides is available to them. Interesting. I'm not sure if there's a way to convert a standard VM to a Shared VM. The "Share" menu item seems to be greyed out in my version of WS-Pro 12. -derek -- 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
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