Re: [Bulk] Installing Windows afterFedora

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen tmr com>]

Fabio Jara wrote:
> I have the same issue about windows, recently the university that i work 
> have buy a package of windows 7 and before that they have the windows 
> Vista and XP.
>
> The internal system that they use here to manage all the database of 
> students work only on windows, so i put some effort into Virtual machine 
> work, and find out that it was the best solution to this issue, you can 
> install any windows ( at least in Fedora 11 i have tested ) and it 
> works, you have your own linux machine, you do not need to change to an 
> OS that you aren't used at.
>
> Today, i have my Notebook HP with Fedora 11, and two Virtual Machines on 
> it, one with Windows XP and the other with Windows 7. An they work 
> perfectly, and the best side of it is that i have my Fedora :D ( yes, 
> i'm in love with Fedora ).
>
> Hope my advice enlighten you to the good side of the force ( yes, that too )
I probably should have included in my first post that this will be to test some 
video cards which are not supported, or poorly supported, in Linux. I have 
doubts about doing this from a VM, timing and real mode issues could be present, 
and passing PCI cards to a VM while ignoring them in Linux is high voodoo.


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