hi, can I have 3 OS like winxp,fedora linux and solaris in same system ? will there be any problems if I do so ? what are the things which I need to keep in mind? thanks

1. I'm not sure about solaris and XP, but if you can install the two of them, Fedora will be able to install with the others. I currently run a system with XP and Fedora (in fact, two linux kernel versions) and GRUB works just fine choosing between the three.

   If you can install Solaris on top of the XP system, install XP first as it will overwrite the boot record and you won't be able to boot to any of the others without a boot disk.

2. Go to VMWare.com and download the free version of VMServer. This will allow you to run all of them.

   There is a performance hit though if you don't have enough memory. One of the systems (either a Linux or Microsoft system) has to be the host. The others will run under that and share system resources. The big one is RAM. Make sure you have enough to support both because they really need to have exclusive use of the part you allocate for the virtual systems.

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