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Yes, and I ran VMware Server on my CF-19K unit to some testing, and it ran fine (hence the first "yes"). The point I was making is that while it ran fine for me, it may not run fine for you depending on what your VM is doing.
Alrighty then...
"might' just skip it anyhow because I have been playing with the newest version of EASYBCD and it supports BOOTING FROM ISO!
Just put my ISO somewhere on my HD and add a bootmenu entry pointing to it and it boots.. Very nice for some of my LINUX Distros.
Have you ever tried the "start linux cd" option. It allows you to drop a exe file on your windows computer. Put a linux live cd in your drive then when you start it up it runs the other os in a window. I use it a lot for testing of new Linux os's.
(also to throw in here while i am at it. I haven't done VMWARE but i have tried virtualbox on my 29 mk3 and it ran ok, but it was just a copy of DSL (dam small linux).
Yah, tried that 3 years ago when it was new and supported....
The performance is abysmal compared to VMWARE or booting the ISO using EASYBCD.
Order of performance:
1. Native install on HD
2. EASYBCD Solution
3. Booting off CD/DVD
4. VMWARE
I like and have VMWARE, i only had it on my Thinkpad T61. It has been upgraded to 64 bit windows 7 ultimate and 4gb of ram, i haven't reinstalled it yet. I usually use the other two or other machines i know i won't leave the program on it.
I thought EasyBCD is only an editor for the bootmanager of win7 and vista for people, which don't know how to use bcdedit ;-) . That means there is no virtualisation like in VMWare.
ESX will not work on ur CF-19.
Or did I understand ur question wrong?
From their site:
# Boot into XP/Vista/7/Ubuntu/OS X and more!
# Boot from USB, Network, ISO images, Virtual Harddisks (VHD), WinPE, and more!
# Repair the Windows bootloader, change your boot drive, create a bootable USB, and more!
GRUB4DOS has had bootable virtual disk support, including boot to floppy image, boot to hard disk image, and boot to ISO. EasyBCD incorporates GRUB4DOS functionality as the
NeoGrub feature. GRUB4DOS itself is based on
GRUB.
I've been using GRUB as a bootloader for several years and have increasingly been using GRUB4DOS because of the added flexibility and Windows support it offers. Even when multibooting a couple Microsoft operating systems, I prefer to boot using GRUB instead of allowing Microsoft to manage the booting. If you've had to delete and/or reinstall the OS in the MS boot partition and still wanted to use the other installed OS, you can appreciate the reason (though there are usually ways to go back and make that other partition bootable). One catch is that when installing Windows, it clears out the MBR, including any GRUB installation, so after installing Windows, you need to reinstall GRUB.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
