Hey guys how can i make it safe for vmware to boot the linux paritions and is there a setting in suse to mae it so it doesnt have to change settings all the time for different hardware

What???

sorry but i cant undestrand what are you trying to do woth vmware.

will you install on suse and install windows as Host OS?

i currently have a dual boot setup but i want to control my linux when im in windows

vmware let you setup a virtual pc not controlling another os if you dualboot

but the main question is how can i make it so linux can choose hardware profiles of either the real machibe or the virtual machine

Ugh... VMware EMULATES a basic x86 machine so you can install an OS of your choice that works within that environment. You can't control a real machine through VMware, that's not what it's designed for. You can't "switch hardware profiles" as you put it. What you're asking for is a feature which will be available for the newer G5's from IBM in the Apple machines very soon, where you can run two REAL OS's at the same time. It basically partitions the CPU to allow multiple OS's to run simultaneously. It's been available on IBM's POWER range servers for quite some time. I think this feature will eventually come to the consumer Pentium range too, code named "Vanderpool", but I don't think there's anything confirmed yet as to it's release (as far as Consumer chips go).

Personally, I just setup a Windows Terminal server, that way you get better performance. What you're asking for however is not possable with your hardware.

well i know if i did it the other way around it would work becuse windows has a profile manager to tell it what services/drivers to load

PS im well aware of how vmware works and how to use it im a proud owner of it as well

Then I don't understand what you want to achieve, make your self clearer please.

there use to be settings at least in one of the virtual PC systems that let you run a virtual environment from inside another OS where the virtual OS was runing on another partition with out needing a image file of the HD... I think that is what he is talking about

Semaja, you can boot your partitions (note where VMWare says "WARNING" Advanced Users Only), but you will be booting with the "virtual" hardware, not your actual hardware. What you want to do is really just won't work. As with windows, you can't just go around booting off your drive on every computer you find, it just doesn't work.

make another kernel in linux that will work with your virtual hardware. boot up it instead of your normal linux kernel.