About to go back to windows host -- need advice

[Les Mikesell]

David Frascone wrote:
> 
>     If you are mostly network-connected, another option to consider would be
>     putting linux on a different box somewhere and accessing it with freenx
>     and the windows NX client. You'll get approximately the same effect when
>     connected, plus the ability to disconnect with everything still running
>     which may or may not be an advantage, depending on what you are doing. 
> 
> 
> That's definitely an option.  I had discounted NX in the past, since it 
> was incompatible with synergy -- but since I don't use synergy any more . .

Incompatible in what way?  I run a windows desktop with synergy server 
so its keyboard/mouse controls my laptop when it is docked beside it and 
I can run NX on either or both with everything still working.  The mouse 
sometimes gets a little shaky if I also run vmware console remotely in a 
linux session under NX, but it is still usable and I haven't pinned down 
exactly which part of the combination triggers it.  But I consider NX to 
be the best of both worlds - you get local windows device and multi 
monitor handling without tracking down new drivers after every update 
and you can reboot if you need to while the linux box keeps running. 
Plus you can disconnect the session and pick it up elsewhere. For 
example, I can VPN to the office and connect from the Mac version at 
home with everything still running.

> I did forget one other question:  When I re-do things, can I choose to 
> dual-boot *or* run the linux partition in vmware?  Or, would it be 
> better to just pick VMWare *or* natively booting?
> 
> I know windows doesn't like to do both . . and I assume that linux won't 
> enjoy the constant driver changing -- but other than that . . . could 
> that be the "best of both worlds"?  I could boot to linux sometimes -- 
> or -- other times run in in a VM, off of the normal linux partition?

I had that working for a while but I think it kept breaking after 
updates and wasn't really worth the trouble.   If you need both,
I'd install a separate vmware system and work out some way to share only 
the /home partition (mount the same raw partition as a 2nd drive but 
don't use the rest of it).

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   Les Mikesell
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