Dual boot Fedora <--> Windows 8

[Chris Murphy]

On Nov 22, 2013, at 5:13 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:

> Andre Costa wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have the following partitions on a 1TB disk:
>> 
>>  * 1M BIOS boot partition
>>  * 500M Linux boot partition
>>  * 733G Linux LVM partition (Fedora 19)
>>  * 200G unused space
>> 
>> I would like to install Windows 8 on this last partition. Anyone knows if this
>> will mess up with my current boot manager? Can Windows 8 coexist with GRUB?
>> 
> How comfortable are you with virtual machines, assuming that your CPU supports it? You could set Windows in a VM on that partition, and the overhead is minimal enough that it shouldn't hurt unless you really beat on Windows. Just a thought,

He wants it for gaming. I wouldn't use a VM for that.


Chris Murphy