multiboot

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Sun May 02, 2004 4:12 pm

in case you want to run multiboot configs

http://www.xs4all.nl/~bluez/datatalk/multiboo.htm

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Sun May 02, 2004 6:47 pm

If you have a farily beefy main machine you might want to check out VMWare workstation. This product creates "virtual machines" and lets you install *and run* multiple operating systems at the same time on one machine.

Currently I have Window 98, Window 2000, Windows XP home and pro, FreeBSD 4.8 and 5.2 and Mandrake Linux all installed in virtual machine configurations to allow for quick and easy testing of software on different platforms. VMware is about $189.00 and well worth it IMHO!

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Sun May 02, 2004 6:58 pm

vmware was actually the next thing i was gonna' have a look at

only reason for multiboot is speed as there is no overhead, i tend to build all machines using the 'dos on d:' configuration, where i add one fat32 partition to handle ghost

dunno how good vmware is these days, older versions did cause me some minor problems, but those might be things of the past...

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Sun May 02, 2004 8:50 pm

I've been using it for about a year now with zero problems.. It is pretty impressive and VERY fast..

dell_jockey · Post by **dell_jockey** » Mon May 03, 2004 11:44 am

Hi Group,

I second Mitch. VMWare rocks! This is what I use VMWare for:

VMWare runs two parallel virtual machines: one hosts Linux the other WinXP. On Linux I use an smb client, to be able to connect to and use a share published by the host machine (WinNT). This share keeps the development source tree. Both the WinXP and Linux client connect to this developement share.
Using this single source tree, I can compile & test under NT (on the host), XP and Linux (on the VM's), all at the same time. It's a LAN, simulated on a single machine. Works like a charm and saves a lot of time.