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Use Virtual Windows XP in Linux

So you want to use legacy windows-only applications and have no other options and instead of keeping separate machine or installing Complete OS on another partition just for such moments is waste of resources. Then you can use VMWARE products to do this, the preferred application is VMware Workstation, but I have seen you can install it via freeware VMware server too.

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Gparted hard disk partition manager for Linux - Demo in Fedora 7

So I had to quickly add NEW disk space to my Linux operating system (Fedora7 distro) ,now this new space is nothing but unallocated disk lying dormant.

The app here I used is Gparted , installing it with a single command and within minutes adding(mounting) it to my list of partitions. check video if you really want to see how does it operate. really handy tool.




NOTE:- at end what you dont see in video is I added following single line to a file called fstab so everytime i reboot, this NEW partition also loads without my needing to do command things again and again.

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[anshu@Fedora7 ~]$ sudo vi /etc/fstab
/dev/sda4 /Opvms ext3 defaults 0 0
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Screenshot below is how it looks in end.

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