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7 Sep 2024 09:21:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Coolest thing EVER!  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 31 Aug 2008 19:58:34
Message: <48bb3029@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> I'll have to see if I can make it run the Linux on the other partition,
> just to see. It could be pretty cool if I could get into my work
> machine's configuration for a bit without having to stop what I'm doing
> in Windows every time they want some free advice. :-)

That's apparently a bad idea. The VM would have different hardware than your
real machine. It's like taking the HD off and booting it on a machine with
completely different CPU, motherboard, network card, graphics card...

At least Windows would pop up a dozen "new hardware detected" messages :)


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