Re: [LI] VMware & Dual Bot

[C Hanish Menon <hanish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello

VMware can work with 2 kinds of Disks

  a) Virtual Disks ( These are files in your host OS, which are treated as
Disks by VMWare)

  b) Raw Disks ( These are actual disks in you machine). 

	The latest version of VMWare if I am not wrong has the RawDisk
management logic in the **GUI wizard**  which you can select after running
VMware from its menu. It will allow to set access rights on various partitions
on your Harddisk. 

	The Older VMwares had a perl script called ** make_saferawdisk.pl **or
so to do the same thing which will be in your vmware_distrib directory. You have
to run this script to generate a  safe_disk config file for VMware. Once this
is done, In the VMware's Configuration editor specify one of the IDE interfaces
to point to the Safe_Disk config which was created using the perl script. 

This should allow you to run more than one OS simultaneously from the already
available OSes in your m/c rather than installing a new one.

-- 
Keep :-)
HanishKVC

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