On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 07:54 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 05:00:00PM +0530, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote: > > I have two partitions in my PC. I have installed F10 on one partition and > > Windows XP on the second partition. Now, can I run the XP as guest OS on F10 > > using VM? and how? > > Set up a VM, and for the disk device, select "Normal disk partition" > and point to the device node that contains your Windows system. If > you're not sure what that is, run: > > su -c 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' > > (Provide the root password at the prompt.) Look for the device that > contains an NTFS file system; this is the one you'll use in your VM > guest setup. I'm using KVM on F10, but I think this is fairly > standard. Does this actually work? I thought Windows XP was very picky about the hardware it's on, so, at least as far as I understand it, it will complain that hardware has changed when it's run in the VM (if it boots at all). I normally recommend separate system partitions for *real* Windows XP and *virtualized* Windows XP, but maybe my information is dated. Jonathan
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