Run my linux partition within windows


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Hello.

I am struggling to set up ubuntu mainly because i can't use the internet with it yet, switching between windows and ubuntu is prooving to be a pain.

Can I run ubuntu within windows and make the changes there so when i reboot and use ubuntu all the changes i made within it stay.

I guess kind of like running it as a virtual machine, but not actually running it as a virtual machine but off of the actual linux partition of my hard drive.

Thanks

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You should have a dedicate partition for Windows and a separate partition for Linux. It is called dual booting. I have never had a problem doing this. To switch between the two, you need to log off of one and into the other, or reboot. Anything that you do within Linux should remain in place after a reboot.

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You should have a dedicate partition for Windows and a separate partition for Linux. It is called dual booting. I have never had a problem doing this. To switch between the two, you need to log off of one and into the other, or reboot. Anything that you do within Linux should remain in place after a reboot.

Yeah, i have that. However I want to be even lazier and not have to keep switching. I am wondering if I can run ubuntu within a window in windows and finish setting it up there. I have an external harddrive using FAT32 so I can swap files from windows to linux there :D.

Otherwise I guess that will be my only option :(.

cheers for the reply :D

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VMware workstation can run your native Ubuntu install in it. Just use your real disk as virtual disk, it will boot and internet will work in it.

Beware, this isn't guaranteed to work.

As VMware emulates hardware that is probably different to your actual setup, you may get issues upon booting inside a VM.

Also if changes are made to hardware drivers/config, you may not be able to boot natively due to the changes and differing (real) hardware.

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Linux is not windows. It is not locked to 1 hardware configuration. It will adapt. Only X (the graphical interface) will fail to start, but an automatic rescue things will popop and let you use the vmware driver or vesa (no accell but work everywhere) driver. When the real install will work fine, just returning to nvidia ou fglrx (ati) 3D driver will be needed.

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That's an emulator, it is far worst than virtualisation, it will just be -too- slow.

:rofl:

Virtualization is emulation.

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emulation emulate every single assembly/binary call in a virtual CPU. Virtualisation use your real hardware when possible, only dangerous CPU call like frequency change are emulated or rejected. Some hardware like cdrom drive, ethernet adapter and video card are emulated, but not the memory access or CPU request/interuptions. It is why virtualisation is around 90% of native speed for prosessing operation and emulation is less than 10%. That said, emulation have few advantages, like being able to run assembly designed for other architectures, like SPARC, ARM or PPC, otherwise, emulation is just deprecated these day, nobody use that anymore.

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Oh, you are talking only about CPU emulation. Because virtualization is all about emulating hardware and all that jazz :p

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