nowbotcove

1. Dual Boot Windows 10 And Ubuntu 16.04

Jul 21, 2012  Best way to install ESXi and Hyper-V on one SSD? Discussion in '. I just thought of the idea as a work around for the ESXi and Hyper-V dual boot option. The idea is two fold. Didn't say to install or boot Windows from there. The idea is if you can't depend on the bootloader being on the drive itself, and you don't have an easy. I don't think there'll be any sort of dual-booting scenario here. Nate7311, Jul 16. My Hyper-V box is taking up about 10GB of space.

So, with the coming of Ryzen and moar cores, I'm coming to think I want to move away from Windows except for gaming/Lightroom type work. I want to experiment a little, I've got an extra laptop with nothing on it at the moment (i5 4300U, has VT support) and want to see how it works. So that'd be emulated/shared iGPU and shared everything. I'm fine with that, I know performance will suffer somewhat and gaming isn't a goal for this round so no GPU passthrough.
So basically, what I'd kinda like to be able to do is switch between Windows10 & Linux Desktop sorta like how you can have multiple desktop workspaces. Just OSes. And without running one inside the other such as with Virtual Box.
That said, I'm looking at Xen Project or Xen Server (currently), and the main difference between them seems to be Xen Server already has a dom0 linux base as part of it's install, while Xen Project you choose your own linux base and boot into Xen using that as dom0. That's my impression at least, besides the whole paid support thing you can get.
I've done some reading and searching, I think what I want is possible, but are there other alternatives? I know of VMWare, but can it reasonably support on a single machine this kind of thing? I suppose it's _sorta_ VDI, but isn't really because it's still local.

I need to set up a dual boot between Server 2008 R2 & VMware ESXi on same server.
I already have Server 2008 R2 loaded on a server.

Dual Boot Windows 10 And Ubuntu 16.04

I have a couple free hard drives on this server that are not being used.
I would like to install VMware ESXi on one of these available hard drives and then be able to choose while my server is first booting up if I want to boot into the VMware ESXi or Server 2008 R2.
Is there any way of setting this up?
If this can't be done through a true dual boot scenario then can I set up a VMware boot CD that will allow me to boot off of the VMware hard drive installed within my server?
I need to set this up on several test servers in my test lab that already have Server 2008 R2 installed on them. I don't want to damage or erase these Server 2008 R2 server operating systems or any of their data.
Please let me know if this is possible.