Jeffrey, On Thursday 23 June 2005 21:09, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
Quoting Dave Barton <bmcs@myrealbox.com>: ....
Are you: (a) trying to set up a VM for an existing W2K partition (ie. a dual boot machine)? or (b) ...
If your considering (a) I would advise against it. From first hand experience, you are very likely to screw up the existing W2K install and grub will certainly puke (don't know about lilo).
a)
I am using GRUB and it does puke. I see "GRUB" on a text screen and nothing more happens. I have done this with previous versions of VMware and SuSE, but I may have been using LILO then.
I don't have any particular experience with this. I performed a new installation of WindowsXP and the bootloader was set up properly for the raw disk. I have only a vague recollection of this, but there are one or two commands in Windows for repairing boot sectors. One name I remember is CHECKMBR. Look into it on the Web.
(b) is a possibility, but create the partition for your VM, before you start the New VM wizard.
HTH Dave
I have just one day left on the eval license and am trying to find out if it will work. It works fine with a virtual disk. So far at least.
Well, overall I think VMWare 5 works quite well. Whether you can resolve this issue before the license expires, I don't know. If you call VMWare and explain your situation to a sales rep, they might extend your trial license or give you a new one. (They offered to do so for me when the 5.0 packages had to be back-ordered due to unexpected demand.) Overall, VMWare is very responsive, both from the tech support side and the sales side. They ought to be, for the bucks they get for their product!
Thanks, Jeffrey
Randall Schulz