Booting linux while running windows

Superme · 10-26-2004, 02:25 PM

I am wondering if there is a program that can boot my machine in a window, while i have an OS running. so that i can access another OS such as linux while windows is running.

b0uncer · 10-26-2004, 02:37 PM

isn't it enough to use some windoze-apps from within linux?

XavierP · 10-26-2004, 02:38 PM

You need to look into VMWare. It's not free (as in no cost), but many people run it under both Windows and Linux and it works.

UsualTuxpect · 10-26-2004, 02:41 PM

I am unable to actually understand what you mean by "so that i can access another OS such as linux while windows is running".

Anyway, see if this is what you are looking for -->http://www.cygwin.com/
http://www.cygwin.com/faq/

Mega Man X · 10-26-2004, 02:42 PM

There's TopoLinux which is a Linux distro based on Slack which can be installed on the top of any Windows version. There's also Bochs that can run Operating Systems inside emulation and also there's also the very well known, non-free, WMWare.

Regards!

Oxyacetylene · 10-26-2004, 03:28 PM

Just to throw it in the loop, MS now has a Virtual PC product that is comparable to VMware. You can install linux using it too.

syphoncode.32 · 10-26-2004, 06:03 PM

I use VMWare, its pretty cool and got it for free off p2p. Theres alot of different things you can do with it, if you're currently booted into windoze you can use vmware to boot up a native installation of linux (be sure to have separate config files for the display). VMWare doesnt support booting a native windows installation though, you'll have to have a separate install into a virtual disk. The really cool thing about it is that you can network all your virtual machines together and with the host system