>-----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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