On 01-Mar-05 Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 2:09 am, Anthony Anson wrote:
Or use a boot mangler - either a Linux one or a DOS/Windows one, and then you can have both on the same box. ATM I have Bootmagic. (From Partition Magic)
It's a pity that VMware Workstation costs money, I use it all the time but the purchase cost may be a bit hard to swallow for home or hobby use.
It is (in 90% of cases) a far better option than multibooting.
I'll second that! I've been using a (paid-up) oldish VMWare for over 5 years. A bit limited in what hardware it can recognise (no bidirectional parallel port or USB, for instance), but for those occasions when I need to run Windows (98) for some task it's excellent.
You can (by definition) be running Windows (or DOS or another Linux installation) on top of your running Linux.
A great feature is that "cut&paste" inter-communicates between the real machine (X on Linux) and the virtual machine (Windows in VMWare):
Linux->Windows Use the mouse to highlight the block of text to be copied. Raise the VMWare window with Windows running, click on "Edit" and then "Paste" and in it goes.
Windows-> Linux Copy the block of text into the "clipboard" buffer in the usual way, as for "copy & paste" in WIndows. Then go to the X window where you want to copy it in, and press the middle mouse button (as usual in X), and in it goes.
Also, you can set up "virtual networking" between your virtual machine and your real machine (and other hosts if this is on a network).