running windows in a window?

luigi6699 · 05-16-2004, 09:05 PM

Hey all -
I've got a great dual boot Gentoo/WinXP system here... just love it. Managed to get both sides reading the others' partitions, too! That's great, but I have one more hope...

is there any way to start up my windows partition inside a linux window, a la vmware? Heck, will vmware run off my windows partition? What's the best program for the job, if any exists?

trickykid · 05-16-2004, 10:52 PM

VMware can be a hog, you could try Win4Lin but only really supports running Windows 98 last time I checked, etc. VMware is really your only choice, unless you have another machine and setup a terminal server, etc and use something like rdesktop or vnc, etc.

luigi6699 · 05-17-2004, 01:04 AM

Umm... On your reccommendation, I just had a look at portage for vmware, and there is an installation candidate - vmware-workstation-4.5.1.7568 . I'm emerging it as we speak. Do you know what sort of version this is? I thought vmware was commercial, but I could swear that I'm downloading and compiling it for free... Is this a demo? An open source mock-up?

Am I completely nuts?