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Name: zzed21
Date: April 9, 2009 at 21:40:48 Pacific
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
CPU/Ram: 1.5 GHz / 2037 MB
Product: Hewlett-packard / Hp pavilion dv2500 notebook pc
Subcategory: General
Comment:

Okay, So I have 2 partitions on my computer with 2 operating systems installed. I would like to use my windows 7 partition and then emulate the other partition in my windows 7 one. I searched online and I have found nothing even relatively close to what I am looking for. please help
thank-you



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Name: IVO
Date: April 10, 2009 at 05:51:36 Pacific
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You can run two or more operating systems concurrently inside the same partition using virtual machines. This is a well known and operated tecnology and I'm surprised you found no references on that by googling.

There are free emulators/virtualizers for any flavour

- MS Virtual PC 2007 by Microsoft
- VMWare and VMPlayer
- VirtualBox as open source code
- Quemu another open source
- Bochs open source, the slowest and technical oriented

They install inside a virtual disk and run as windows on your desktop. Which to choose depends on the guest operating system and your purpose.


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Name: zzed21
Date: April 10, 2009 at 12:05:08 Pacific
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Okay, well if thats the only way to do it then I'll just look for I decent emulater like that. Its unfortunate I was prety sure that there would be one that would let me boot the other partition while in my windows 7 one


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Response Number 3
Name: IVO
Date: April 10, 2009 at 14:29:55 Pacific
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I'm not sure but VMWare can do what you wish, i.e. boot the virtual machine from another partition not just from a virtual volume. Take a look at their site and see if the free offers enable that facility.


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