work on xp desktop

[amritroy]

i have sabayon 4 as well as XPsp3 installed on my lappy. Could nyone tell me how do i work on both of the systems simultaneously at the same time??

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

Check out VMware to see if it might work for you:

VMware Workstation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[L4Linux]

Portable Ubuntu, it is very easy to install and use and really unobtrusive, see the screenshot and you'll get what I mean.

This works only for Ubuntu though. If you want Sabayon use either VMWare or better yet VirtualBox, which lets
you create virtual images. The money-free version of VMWare only reads images, you have to pay to create them.

I had to post a link to my blog for this, hope it is ok with the moderators
If not, remove the reply, no problem

[amritroy]

actually guys, bothh the cases requires me to install a new version of xp on a virtual m/c; whereas i wanna use my existing one. I want to be able to work on the xp environment already present in another partition of my hdd from my linux os

[oz]

If VMware won't do what you want, you could try coLinux, and/or andLinux:

Cooperative Linux

andLinux.org -- Run Linux natively inside Windows

Perhaps one of them will work for you.

[L4Linux]

What you want sounds practically impossible with the current tools available...
In this link, it has instructions on how to put your existing windows installation into a virtual image. I don't know if you like it as a solution, especially if you want to continue booting into windows for heavy tasks that require full system resources or for directX stuff. But if you don't, it maybe be a very good solution (provided it works, I haven't tried it)