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Installing Linux and Windows on the same workstation

Hi, thanks in advance for your help. I currently have a machine running windows xp and am interested in installing linux onto this machine as well. However I do not want to have to reboot just get get into the other OS. Is there a way to switch between OS'es on the fly? If so please provide some instructions. I appreciate it very much.

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see
http://www.vmware.com/
(MAY be a free evaluation - not sure)

and
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
(Virtual PC has a free 45 day trial)

Be warned - I can't speak for VMWare, but Virtual PC can take HOURS to install an OS - but once installed, it can work rather well with Linux - even though microsoft doesn't like to acknowledge the OS.
Hi,

   I use VMware workstation 4.5 and one thing I want to comment is that you need more memory (1GB I'd say)
since you are running multiple OSs on one machine at the same time.

http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_features.html

   Their support is not bad.

Regards,

Wesly
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Thanks for all your help.