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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 23 May 2007 23:20, jdd wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > At least VMware Workstation (not free of charge) can do this. I
> > haven't checked to see if VMware Server (the zero-cost product) can
> > do so as well.
>
> and be aware than running XP through vmware _and_ sometime directly
> is quite dangerous (In fact I didn't try it for XP but for windows 98
> time ago, the config files where mixed)

Eh? Dangerous in what way?

Do you mean running a given installation on "bare hardware" sometimes 
and under VMware at others? Assuming you install enough hardware 
drivers (disks and video would need two each, probably), the only 
problem I can think of is the fact that Windows sees different hardware 
configurations and under XP and later this can trigger Windows 
Activation to decide that the installation has moved to a new machine 
in violation the license.


> jdd


Randall Schulz
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