[YLUG] Can anybody reccomend a util to read my linux partitions in Windows 7 Home Premium please?

[Harry Mills]

Just as a note for those who, like me, use Windows for gaming and don't use
it very often - VMs don't support 3D graphics very well so if you need
Windows for 3D applications you'll still need a separate install and a VM
won't solve your problems unfortunately. If you don't need 3D though then
the VM solution is a very nice alternative to dual-booting.

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On 24 August 2011 13:33, Stuart Anderson <stuart.anderson at hotmail.com>wrote:

> This doesn't answer your question directly Alex, more food for thought and
> may mean reorganising your computer or be used in a future computer.
>
> If you mostly use windows and want to use Linux along side it, consider
> running a virtual machine with something like Oracle vbox, or VMWare Player
> for home/non commercial use.
>
> If you are not familiar with virtual machines, essentially your guest
> operating system (linux,dos,windows,etc.) Runs inside a software container
> that runs on your primary or host operating system. You can have several
> virtual machines running at the same time without the need to physically
> boot into a different operating system, provided the computer has sufficient
> resources to do the job. You can also expose the host and guest file systems
> to one another.
>
> Installing a guest OS is similar to installing physically onto your
> computer, it is just done through the VM software rather than booting to
> install media directly and you don't need to create partitions for the
> different operating systems, they use a virtual disk.
>
> Vms are also useful for testing things out, vbox will allow you to create
> snapshots of a machine to roll back to if you find what you installed or
> configured turns out to be fatal. VMWare workstation also creates snapshots
> and is the commercial version of VMWare Player.
>
> You can also have Linux as your primary OS and run windows as a guest OS
> inside that if you prefer.
>
> Cheers,
> Stuart
>
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> From: alex.armani at live.co.uk
> To: york at lists.lug.org.uk
> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:41:56 +0100
> Subject: [YLUG] Can anybody reccomend a util to read my linux partitions in
> Windows 7 Home Premium please?
>
>
>  Can anybody reccomend a util to read my linux partitions in Windows 7
> Home Premium please?
> tia; tnx fro Alex & Anna.xx
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