RTFM VMWare question

[FRamsay at castelhq.com]

VMWare installs under linux as an application.

Once installed you can install windows into vmware or you can tell VMWare
to use a
raw partition.  Using the raw disk method you should (semi-guess) allow you
to use
your already installed OS's w/out re-installing (but you will need to
install the drivers
for the vm-hardware. on the client OS's)

                         -fjr


Frank Ramsay
Systems Programmer
Castel, Inc
14 Summer St, 3rd Floor
Malden, MA 02148
(781) 324-0140 (voice)
(781) 324-0277 (fax)
Emal: framsay at castel.com


                                                                                                                   
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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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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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