Booting an existing Windows partition

glorfindel · 2011-04-10 16:14:39

Hey guys,

first of all: thank you everyone! For contributing to the wiki or letting me find help in the forums. +Please don't blame me for my bad english, I'm not a native speaker.

I need a solution for both booting into an existing Win partition inside Linux AND native booting for following purpose:

Virtual Booting: stuff we do in school. I sometimes need Visual Studio (poor enough that we learn C#), or MathCAD, MSSQL Server etc.
Native Booting: Playing certain games.

I googled for like an hour and I didn't find a satisfying answer to which software i should use. I don't need you to post extended guides or workarounds, I just need to know what program to use (Suggestions I already got: qemu, vbox, vmware, parallels), I guess I'm able to get it running by myself (although you're welcome to post useful links!)

I prefer Windows7 but if i have to use XP it's not that big deal (since W7 doesn't seem to support hardware profiles)

Thanks in advance!

shulamy · 2011-04-10 20:23:12

why not dual boot ?

ezik

glorfindel · 2011-04-10 20:43:32

because i don't want to reboot every two hours just for using one stupid application.

fsckd · 2011-04-10 20:50:02

other option is to have an virtual install only instead of virtual and native
most guides for what i think you want are for xp only
the best i could find for win7 on fedora: http://www.losderover.be/node/164
edit: this too: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=984437
both use vbox

Last edited by fsckd (2011-04-10 20:52:06)

glorfindel · 2011-04-11 00:41:16

thank you! i'll try that out tommorow.

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Booting an existing Windows partition

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