http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/windowsxp-and-linux-dual-run-anyone/ Sat, 18 May 2013 07:52:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/windowsxp-and-linux-dual-run-anyone/#comment-52702 rhololkeolke Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:26:07 +0000 #comment-52702 I am slightly confused as to what you are asking. You linked to articles regarding dual booting vs virtualization. If you want to run programs in windows and linux at the same time you have to use something like vmware to virtualize one of the operating systems. If you just want to have access to both linux and windows and don’t mind having to restart to switch between the two I would recommend dual booting. I dual boot Ubuntu and XP and all I had to do was install XP then install Ubuntu and Ubuntu set everything up for me. I have also done it with SUSE and again it was the same idea just install XP then install SUSE. A side note about virtualization is that it splits your resources between the two machines. Basically this means if you have an application that needs 512 MB of ram you need double that so that you can run both the host operating system and the virtualized one at the same time.

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