Yes, Vmware allows you to create another OS on an existing OS. That is if you want to use both linux and windows using vmware, boot into windows and use vmware to create a virtual linux m/c or vice versa (ie. on linux create windows using vmware).

But you can't use the linux OS which you have installed at part of your dual boot while on windows.

That Suckssssssss

PS:Thanks for the info

No. You can use VMware to boot into your current dual boot setup. That's what I'm doing with Debian and windows. All you have to do is delete the virtual hdd then add a new one, but this time select the physical harddisk....then select the appropriate partitions. Feel free to ask more questions if its not working.

thats what i wanted to hear moneyshotz. i email you with more info, because i have lots of questions

hey, that's great. I didn't know about it.

Drogo, once you have finished doing that can you elaborate the process of getting it done. When I create a new virtual m/c it doesn't ask me about any option about hdd.

Wait...you have a dual boot, windows and linux. Now you have vmware installed in windows and want to access your linux parition? I am almost 100% sure this is not possible. When vmware installs a system it emulates hardware. The mobo you really have and the mobo that will be in your virtual machines will be different, along with just about everything. So how is vmware going to access something it never made?

Can you please post a little more detail? -thanks

Actually i installed the Vmware on the linux partition as the host .
i email moneyshotz and he hasnt answer back, so i dont know how he did it , im still waiting for his answer

Do a custom virtual machine. When it ask you the size of the virtual disk, select RAW partition. VMWARE is going to complain and give you a message box saying "blah, blah, only do this if know what you are doing, blah, blah, you can ruin your OS, blah, blah". Specify your partition but make sure its not mounted. Then hit next, and resume through the wizard process. Add only devices that you want. Back up your windows partition and power on the Virtual machine. Windows will complain or it will just detect and install the devices. I hope you backup your windows partition. You may need it for the next. Reboot your computer and see how much Windows has screwed up. If it has screwed up, you can use the backup. Don't use MS backup. Never works. Use dd in LINUX or Norton Ghost.

If you want to do the right way, you can make a hardware profile. One for native windows and the other for vmware.

All I really did was what electro did. Just have a hard disk and points to a physicial disk instead of the virtual file.