Question. Multi Boot

[Da Rock]

On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 11:10 -0500, Jorge Biquez wrote:
> Hello all.
> I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I have read archives 
> and do gogled searches but would like , if possible, to hear comments 
> based on experience.
> 
> I have a machine, pentium D 2.4mhz 2gb RAM, 160DD HD XP Pro. As I 
> mentuioned in other post I installed FreeBSD 7.3 under a virtual 
> machine using vmware. It works fine but seems it is too much for the 
> machine since when I am running it the machine is very slow. I have 
> that FB installation running without graphical interface since that's 
> why I need then.
> 
> Now I would like to have a graphical interface running to learn to 
> use eclipse and continue with my PHP/Mysql development learning. I 
> know that if I continue under VMware the windows machine will be even 
> more slow so I decided that I would have this machine running with a 
> multi boot schema and choose when to boot under FreeBSd, Windows and 
> later with Linux (looking for a job and in some companies asked me to 
> have the basics of any distribution). The most important is that I 
> need to be able to continue having that actual windows partition 
> without loosing anything or changing anything.
> 
> What do you think, based on experince, is the safest way to accomplish this?

Not quite the exact answer you may be looking for, but why don't you
flip the tables a bit and run Window$ as the virtual machine on the
FreeBSD as a host?

>From my experience it actually works much faster, and Window$ doesn't
see any penalties at all. I haven't done it in quite some time, but that
did work a treat at the time- no reason it should have changed.