WindowsXP, Windows Server 2003, Vista, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE & CentOS. Possible?

[nightwish]

Heres a challenge...
I'd like to install all of the following on a single system:
WindowsXP, Windows Server 2003, Vista, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE & CentOS.

(XP for my everyday system, Server 2003 and CentOS for a computer security course I'm doing, Vista to see what it's like and the other Linux distros to learn about)

So, is it possible? If so, what would be the best way of going about it? Also, I'll need a pretty good boot manager - reccomendations please?

 

[zetec452]

You could use virtual machines. A normal pc will do with at least 1 gig of ram and a fair bit of spare hard disk space.

I have SBS2003, Windows Server 2003, XP, Ubuntu, Debian, SuSE, VIsta all on virtual machines on my pc.

www.vmware.com would be worth looking at.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Yes, it's very possible. You'll have to make partitions on which you can install each of them. From there I'd install the Windowses first. The order for them is not important. Then after that I'd install CentOS, OpenSuSE, then Ubuntu. Ubuntu will automatically tie it all together and install the Grub bootloader that will let you boot all of the OSes.

I'm sure CentOS and SuSE also install a bootloader so if you wanted to end with one of those that'd be dandy too.

 

[afraser2k]

Depending on what you have on your system already I would go with Windows Server 2003 (host) and then have the rest as virtual machines (guests) using VMWare Server. It's available as a free download from here (requires registration for a free serial key).

You can use the others as the host depending on what experience you already have, just check out the VMWare site. I think Linux has Xen available for virtualization but I don't know if it's any good.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

Personally I'd use CentOS with VMWare for all the others, but meh..

Partitions + GRUB = win.

The record for most installed OS's stands at 43 iirc. Every version of windows ever made and just about every flavor of linux and BSD.