On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> Has anybody some real-world performance data about running Windows inside
> VMWare vs running in directly? (Considering, of course, that at that moment
> the host system doesn't have much or anything to do.)

Apparently it sometimes runs faster. Not from personal experience.

> Also... is this possible:
> - I have a normal Windows XP or 2k installation on a disk.
> - I add another partition, install Linux on this partition. So far a
> dual-boot system.
> - I install VMWare under Linux and configure it to run the Windows
> installation, right from the same disk where it was. Does this work? Some
> drivers will probably be different, but Windows generally picks that up
> pretty well.

You can do that with wine, so why not with vmware. Usually vmware 
requires you to reserve a partition for each of its 'clients', and 
install them into that, but it is possible to specify an already 
existing partition.

I think that vmware has become free because of intense competition. Like 
Xen.

Peter
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