[OFB Cafe] Old Computers for Old Guys

[Rick Bowers]

At Monday 7/14/2008 18:10, you wrote:
>said saki:
>
>
>related, kinda: i have two machines here that have xp installs on
>seldom-booted partitions. seems to me there ought to be a way to point
>wine to them and run apps using the genuine windows code, or at least some
>of it. has anybody done this? apparently there is no way to get vmware to
>boot an existing partition, which is maybe the stupidest thing in the
>world. (there is a screenshot around here someplace -- it was
>in "practical kde" -- of i think a win-95 app, a dos word processor, and
>win-3.1 with the legendary microsoft bob, all running in a vmware virtual
>machine. useless computer stunts can be fun.
>--
>dep

I may be late here. I'm way behind in my mail. VMWare has a converter 
that allows you to make a VM of an existing OS installation. It 
should work with your XP partitions.

~Rick


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