Fedora & XP on same machine, good bad or ugly

[Wendell Nichols]

I run FC9 as the only natively installed OS on my machine and have 
windows installed in a vmware (server 2.0) vm under linux.  The XP 
performance is acceptable and it's set to suspend/resume when linux 
starts and stops so it's always  there.  It runs on a masqueraded 
socket, so outside network programs can't access it, which means I don't 
run a firewall on that windows image.  I do run antivirus software 
there... cause you just can't trust it :)
I find this to be the best way to have the necessary windows apps around 
when I need them: outlook and office.   Its been years since I 
absolutely had to have windows running on bare metal. 
wcn

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
>
>   
>>> Good Idea? on different hard drives. XP home installed now.
>>> Good, Bad or ugly? Recommendations.
>>>       
>> I did it for a while, but got tired of it :-). It is good that
>> XP is already installed, because my experience has been that
>> a single ext3 filesystem in any partition anywhere on any disk
>> will make the XP installer crash almost the instant it starts,
>> so XP absolutely has to come first :-).
>>     
>
> I haven't found that.
> Windows XP seems quite good at sticking to its own part of the disk.
> in my experience.
>
> Given a blank disk, I would install XP first,
> but I've found no problem re-installing XP in its own partition.
>
> Of course, it over-writes grub in the MBR,
> but that is to be expected.
>
>