Re: Running Ubuntu under Windows/running a Windows app under Ubuntu

On 31/01/07, Ouattara Oumar Aziz <wattazoum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Eric Dunbar a écrit :
On 28/01/07, Akshay Lamba <akshay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'd primarily like to run the Intel box as an Ubuntu server, but
sometimes I'd like to be able to boot into Windows and run that same
server as a virtual machine in Windows.

I'm going to play with VMWare Player under Windows and see if it'll
allow me to use a disk as the source of the operating system
(according to the Wikipedia entry VMware is able to do that _but_ that
entry didn't mention which VMware product would do that... not sure if
VMware Player will do that).


The product I knew that was able to do that was VMware workstation. In
fact even VMware Player could do that. The only problem is to create the
VM with the right configuration. For that job, only VMware Workstation
or VMware Server can be used. EasyVMX can't .

Another point is that the partition you will use to run the VM has to
have a boot flag set.

wattazoum

PS: That feature is very *experimental* . It may cause you big problem
with your disk. I don't recommend using that.

Basically what I'm trying to do is have a bare-bones Ubuntu server
system that I can run either under Ubuntu (95% of the time) or as a
virtual machine under Windows XP Pro.

Lets see if this scenario works:

I run my server as a virtual machine under VMware all the time.

95% of the time it'll run under Ubuntu as a VM, but, sometimes I'll
boot into Windows and run it there under VMware Player.

Question 1: can the Windows VMware Player run VMs created under Ubuntu
using the Ubuntu VMware?

Question 2: is it safe (as in data corruption/recovery) to keep my
shared files on a virtual disk (separate from the Ubuntu server
virtual machine)?

Thanks for your thoughts, Eric.

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