Re: Solved: Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of Les Mikesell
>Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 3:24 PM
>To: CentOS mailing list
>Subject: Re:  Solved: Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP
>
>Note that it is also possible to set up VMware and perhaps virtualbox to
>be able to boot the alternate OS as a virtual machine so you can run
>both at once if you like.   If you don't have the enterprise-licensed
>version of windows you might need to run it as the host, though.
>Otherwise it will want to be re-licensed every time you switch between
>virtual and physical boots and it sees different hardware.  With Vmware
>you have to install the (free) server version to do the setup, although
>you can later remove it and use the player version at runtime if you prefer.

Thanks for the hint, but it won't work for us, we need the stand-alone 
machines for a course-lab. Each student working at one machine kind of 
scenario, though the idea is interesting in order to eliminate dual-booting. 
Always booting linux and having Windows running in Xen or something at the 
same time sound appealing actually. I'll see if this is feasible with the 
course-admins.

Anyway, we have volume licenses for Windows, so no need for re-activation or 
anything.

Update: Just spoke to the course-admin a quickie. He saw no reason to not run 
Windows virtual machines on a linux box. I'll look into this after the course 
is over.
-- 
/Sorin

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