OT: Virtualisation of dual-boot partitions

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, J.L. Coenders wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Dear all,
>
> Perhaps a bit OT, but I was wondering if there is a virtualisation
> system available that lets you boot a dual-boot partition instead of a
> virtual partition.
> Say, I have a dual-boot system with Linux on /dev/hda1 and Windows XP on
> /dev/hda2.
> I boot the Linux partition and would like to run Windows from within
> Linux. Is there a system which allows that?
> It would be possible if the Windows partition is a virtual one, but that
> way I can never boot Windows without Linux, if I would need high
> performance.
>
> Just wondering...

Don't know about any of the OSS virtualization systems, but VMware will do 
this.

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs