From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 19 08:45:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA9616A416; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:45:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gamato@pobox.sk) Received: from exchange.cleverlance.com (exchange.cleverlance.com [82.119.241.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40CC43D45; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:45:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gamato@pobox.sk) Received: from [192.168.1.67] ([192.168.1.67]) by exchange.cleverlance.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:45:38 +0200 Message-ID: <45373B31.6020200@pobox.sk> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:45:37 +0200 From: martinko User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20061013 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Oct 2006 08:45:38.0857 (UTC) FILETIME=[F3BE2990:01C6F35A] Cc: Subject: running windows applications and making use of existing ms windows installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:45:41 -0000 Hello list, I've been reading for some time about VMWare, Wine, Qemu, Bochs and some others, but I'm still not sure which one would (best) fit my needs: I've got a dual boot and I would like to make use of existing Windows (XP) installation, not having to create a new virtual disk/system and install everything from scratch. Can I use existing Windows installation with some of the existing "emulation" software ?? I would appreciate any suggestions, experiences, how-to's, links, etc. Many thanks! Martin