Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:09:50 +0200 From: "albi albinootje" <albinootje@gmail.com> To: martinko <gamato@pobox.sk> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running windows applications and making use of existing ms windows installation Message-ID: <6a1189840610190209q39220af1m1bb3bca1f7378008@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45373B31.6020200@pobox.sk> References: <45373B31.6020200@pobox.sk>
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On 10/19/06, martinko <gamato@pobox.sk> wrote: > 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 ?? you didn't mention whether you're using NTFS or not on the windows-partition, if you do use NTFS then you already have a problem because you can't write to that partition by default (not sure how far the rw-development is on FreeBSD) vmware server gives you the possibility to use "raw partitions", i've tried that with a linux-partition on an external disc within vmware wine is also a possibility, but wine will by default let you start only 1 app, YMMV last time i tried qemu it didn't support "raw partition" access afair if i were you i would use vmware-server and do a fresh install, easiest and safest
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