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   From: brettg    
   Subject: Re: Dual boot + virtualised guest   
   Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:43:27 +1100   
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   On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:24:37 -0500, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:   
      
   > brettg wrote:   
   >> So, my question is, are there any emulation/virtualisation apps out there   
   >> that will allow me to do the same thing, only with a logical partition   
   >> instead of a physical drive?   
   >>    
   >> Alternatively, if that is not possible which virtualisation product has   
   >> the best 3D support, either available now or at least on its roadmap. If I   
   >> could get 3D support within a virtual machine I wouldn't need to dual-boot   
   >> at all.   
   >>    
   > Since you don't seem to want to get rid of windows like most here,   
      
   Actually, I do want to get rid of Windows. In fact I have already done   
   so with the exception of one online game that I play occasionally (Fly For   
   Fun) which won't work with Cedega, hence the boot natively to Windows   
   requirement.   
      
   The other reason that I need Windows is that I am returning to Uni this   
   year and I am assuming that there may be some cases where I am required to   
   do some work within Windows in order to get the course work done. Visual   
   BASIC or something like that I expect. Maybe I'm wrong, I sure would be   
   happy about that.   
      
   In fact, as of this moment I have decided not to install Windows at all   
   until I am confronted with some compelling reason to do so. Perhaps   
   this day will never come. Of course if Parallels or vmware or Xen or   
   anyone else introduces proper 3D support to their virtualisation product   
   the first thing I will do is load up Windows XP and see how it works.    
      
   Just because I can.   
      
   Should I be ashamed of that?   
      
   Please don't make elitist assumptions about people when you don't know the   
   reasons behind their actions/requirements. You do the cause of   
   promoting Linux adoption no favours by saying stuff to people such as what   
   you wrote above.    
      
   Fortunately, I am not a wavering Windows switcher so I can just shrug it   
   off and get on with stuff. People newer to Linux (and the "holier than   
   thou" attitudes of some of its advocates) may have been less ambivalent   
   towards what you wrote.   
      
      
   > might possibly try Colinux. You just do it the other way   
   around: run   
   > Linux out of Windows. I have tried an adopted "andLinux" this is a   
   > minimalistic Linux based on Xubuntu and running with the resources from   
   > Windows.   
   > You don't even need a reboot to install and you can run both application   
   > types together and even cut and paste between them. If you like this   
   > idea,: take a look there: http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/AndLinux   
      
   Thanks for that, but I don't want to go back to booting Windows every day.   
      
   I couldn't imagine anything worse.   
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