RE: [NF] VMWare of other Virtualization software

Hi Kristyne, thanks for your thoughts on this.

That is almost how I do things at the moment. I have various partitions

each with a different Operating System on, then just set as active the one I

want to boot into.

I was hoping to find a better way so that I could switch OSs live, without

having to reboot each time. Also it would be good for software testing,

could run both the server and workstation at the same time on the same

machine.

Nick

> -----Original Message-----

> From: profox-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf

> Of Kristyne McDaniel

> Sent: 09 November 2008 23:17

> To: 'ProFox Email List'

> Subject: RE: [NF] VMWare of other Virtualization software

> Nick,

> > I have just tested out VMWare GSX but it does not allow

> > stand alone booting; it requires an operating system to

> > host it before it can do anything. I was hoping to find

> > something which doesn't rely on any particular OS.

> Have you thought about using a hardware solution? I have one machine that

> has its boot drive in a drawer mechanism. That allows me to put a boot

> drive

> in that has a different OS on it whenever I need to swap it for testing.

> The drawer mechanism is inexpensive, and small hard drives that can host

> any

> number of OS install sets are really cheap now.

> Kristyne McDaniel

> Whether you think you can, or you think you can't.... you are right.

> -- Henry Ford

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