disk partitioning for multiOS machine

[Dennis J.]

Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry this might be a bit off topic. I am getting a new laptop, and plan
> to use fedora as my main OS. I will be installing Windows too for the
> occasional game. I would also like to install open-solaris and/or
> MacOSX, just to see what others are up to. Eventually I will also want
> to run multiple VMs. It would be necessary to share data across those
> OSs and VMs. I am lost as to how to partition/lvm the 250GB drive for
> optimal use. Does anyone have a similar setup? any advice ?
>
> Would KVM on F10 allow running the non-virtualized (i.e. on disk
> installed) Windows and Solaris to run in full virt mode ? (That should
> save space)

I don't know about Solaris but this works well for WindowsXP. You just have 
to create a separate hardware profile for the virtual version of XP so 
Windows doesn't get confused because of the changing hardware.

Regards,
   Dennis