[ale] Using existing Windows partition in vmware

Jonathan Rickman jonathan at xcorps.net
Mon Dec 1 17:21:15 EST 2003


On Monday 01 December 2003 10:05, Jason Vinson wrote:
> Has anyone successfully configured vmware to use an existing windows
> (xp) installation instead of using a new virtual install?  I don't want
> to pay for another install of windows when i can just use my existing
> install on another harddrive.

You do it by creating a second hardware profile in windows and setting 
your boot options to allow you to specify a hardware profile at startup. 
>From there, it's just a matter of pointing vmware at the partition.

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Jonathan Rickman
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