RHEL and Windows simultaneously?

[scott at MIT.EDU (Scott R Ehrlich)]

Quoting nmeyers at javalinux.net:

> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:39:05AM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>> I currently have my system booting Windows XP installed on a 40 Gig IDE
>> drive.  I'm going to add an 80 Gig IDE drive to the system, and plan to
>> RHEL on it.   I'd ultimately like to make RH the primary OS and be able to
>> boot the existing installation of XP in a window within RH (not
>> dual-boot).
>>
>> I presume there is a program within RH or the Linux world to permit this?
>>
>> I initially thought of VMWare, but that is a self-contained
>> software computer.
>
> Not sure I understand why you're excluding VMWare - what you're describing
> is exactly what VMWare does. I'm not positive, but VMWare may be the
> only one of the bunch that will run an OS installed on a partition,
> without requiring you to create a virtual drive on the host system's
> filesystem.
>
> Nathan
>

The responses thus far have been great for my inquiry.   I am not at all
dismissing the option of VMWare.   From my experience, I've had to freshly
install an OS within VMWare's virtual computer.   I've never used it to 
produce
a VM of an existing OS under the parent OS.

But remember, XP is configured for my existing hardware.  If VMWare can simply
act as a bridge to bring the XP install as a VM within RH, then it may be the
answer.

Can it?   I'll also double-check VMWAre's web site for more details.

Thanks.

Scott