[OpenIndiana-discuss] Multiboot on PC

[Stephan Althaus]

On 05/03/21 06:39 PM, Marc Lobelle wrote:
> On "computers", I agree that it's better to run only OI, but there are 
> needed applications (Teams, Zoom, and other proprietary stuff you 
> sometimes have to use) that do not run on OI (as far as I know) and 
> when you travel, carrying 2 notebooks, One OI and one windows, is not 
> comfortable, so my notebooks are in dual boot OI/windows and use the 
> OI bootloader. The trick is to install windows first(often it is 
> preinstalled), use a tool to reduce the NTFS partition, then install 
> OI in tjhe freed place and modify the boot menu to add a line for 
> windows. As far as I remember, my notebooks use MBR but a 2 TB disk is 
> OK on a notebook
>
> The problem of dual boot systems is that you have to stop OI to run 
> Windows. Is there now a way to run windows reliably and without 
> performance loss and with access to all peripherals  on top of 
> openindiana? I would gladly try it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Marc
>
>
> On 03/05/2021 18:06, Judah Richardson wrote:
>> On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 11:01 AM John D Groenveld <groenveld at acm.org> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In message <CAMf30+HKAONA=ra8JC9gifyMJdmbndnRLLwSzcY-9Hk=
>>> 3abwLg at mail.gmail.com>
>>> , "Francis.D" writes:
>>>> I had for a while OI in multiboot on the same hard disk. On a 
>>>> lenovo T410
>>>> Laptop using the same process on OpenBSD and it worked.
>>>>
>>>> I did not test on UEFI
>>> EFI makes multibooting easier, not that I recommend multibooting.
>>>
>> I generally recommend against it too, but I've found it's also not very
>> useful to question OPs' needs/wants ;)
>>
>>> John
>>> groenveld at acm.org
>>>
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Hi!

I have a Windows VM on my OI host, that suits my needs for proprietary 
software.
You could use VirtualBox or bhyve and RDP for this scenario.

Stephan