Asking for assistance - changing to vmware from a current Boot Magic multiple partition/multiple OS system hard drive

[rg]

All,

Looking for directions please.

My current system boots via Boot Magic to 1 of 2 OS's (W2K and XP).

There are 4 partition (OS's-W2K and XP, 1 Fat and 1 NTFS partition) on the
hard drive.

What would be the best way to convert this to VM Workstation?

Just not sure how to take existing OS's and put them into a VM Workstation
senario.

Many thanks,

Rog

[Daniel Hallmark]

Post by rg
My current system boots via Boot Magic to 1 of 2 OS's (W2K and XP).
There are 4 partition (OS's-W2K and XP, 1 Fat and 1 NTFS partition) on the
hard drive.
What would be the best way to convert this to VM Workstation?
Just not sure how to take existing OS's and put them into a VM Workstation
senario.

Read everything in the docs about setting up dual-boot
machines for raw/physical disk access under VMware. Be
sure to find and read all of the information about
setting up non-acpi HAL.DLL and NTOSKRNL.EXE, and also
about setting up separate profiles for when you boot
under VMware vs. booting natively on the hardware.

I don't use Boot Magic, but run a dual-boot SuSE 9.1
and Win2k system and boot win2k inside VMware hosted
on linux. This is a standard capability (as long as
the drive is IDE and not SCSI - that may work but AFAIK
is not a supported configuration for raw disk access).

Daniel