• Qemu, and an unrelated NTFS question

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:07 pm**

first question: anyone here ever use qemu with windows as the host OS? if so, what sort of luck/experience did you have with it? it sounds like a nice, free/open source alternative to vmware, but i've never messed with it, and have a work-related experiment i'm needing to do that requires windows (bleh!) to be the host OS. :roll:

second: also, does anyone here know of a (free and/or shareware) program that can resize an NTFS partition without doing damage to the data on said partition? i'm wanting to migrate my main notebook to either freebsd or linux, and don't want to lose a lot of the neat shitznits i've acquired. (for that matter, if i can get qemu to play nicely, i'll happily just boot an XP image for any work-related projects)

i don't care if the aforementioned software requires a linux system, as i have a knoppix cd at hand at all times.

thanks. :mrgreen:

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:10 pm**

man..i have no real idea what you just said..but it kinda turned me on.

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:11 pm**

Hmm, no idea, but VMWare does have a free player that might work for you. Also, did you know that the GSX version of VMWare is now free? I'm not sure what exactly it requires for hardware, but that might be something you want to look into.

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:43 pm**

Asher wrote:man..i have no real idea what you just said..but it kinda turned me on.

Thats okay... I know what he said, and I have this little button here that can turn you back off... *click*

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:23 pm**

elasticwings wrote:Hmm, no idea, but VMWare does have a free player that might work for you. Also, did you know that the GSX version of VMWare is now free? I'm not sure what exactly it requires for hardware, but that might be something you want to look into.

hell yeah, i checked it out on monday, and the GSX version is sweet. thanks, man.

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:38 pm**

BearDragonLady wrote:
Asher wrote:man..i have no real idea what you just said..but it kinda turned me on.

Thats okay... I know what he said, and I have this little button here that can turn you back off... *click*

cant turn me off my buttons broke

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:52 pm**

iblis wrote:
elasticwings wrote:Hmm, no idea, but VMWare does have a free player that might work for you. Also, did you know that the GSX version of VMWare is now free? I'm not sure what exactly it requires for hardware, but that might be something you want to look into.

hell yeah, i checked it out on monday, and the GSX version is sweet. thanks, man.

Your welcome, we're using the ESX version at work. It is pretty neat. Kinda nice how quick it boots a RHEL4 session. I put up our web ftp server thingy on one.