can ESX support Dual Boot.

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Dear All,

Can any one reply this qutestion, i have a server with ESX 4.0 and i want to try to install windows 2008 as dual boot. is ESX support dual boot or not, plesae reply

Thanks

Durgesh.

[weinstein5]

ESX does not support dual boot - why not create a 2008 VM on your ESX server?

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[changhai]

found ESX3.5 +win2K3 works.

http://spininfo.homelinux.com/news/ESX_Configuration/2009/09/12/Re:_How_to_dual_boot_ESX3.5_and_Win2...

[AndreTheGiant]

Althought it is possible to manually change grub configuration to add a boot entry to another partition, I suggest to follow the hint to virtualize your Windows Server, instead of try to do a dual boot.

Andre

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hey Changhai,

will try to install ESX 3.5 with win 2008 and let u know all what's the result came. but still ESX 4.0 is not supported but if we try same thing wiht esx 4.0 it will work or not but will try both thinkslets hope.

Thanks for help.

Thanks

Durgesh

[changhai]

Hi, Durgesh,

You could use/test it on your test environment only. just like Andre's recommendation, setting up one win 2008 as one VM in ESX 4,installed on physical machine.

Changhai