-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-15 at 00:16 +0100, jdd wrote:
one thing is not clear and I have yet to investigate:
I need to use a pre-existant XP install in a raw disk.
* virtualbox say "don't boot from raw disk, you can corrupt the data", so I didn't try, but is that true?
The problem is that you give windows real access to the disk, and if things in windows go wrong (a malign virus, for instance), it can corrupt the whole thing. However, if windows is using a virtualized disk, that is the most it can corrupt: the host is in control.
* vmware say "you can", but the problem I have is that my disk is a multiboot 10.3 grub menu first, then vista+xp menu. I want to boot only XP if possible in virtualbox, if not in vmware
is that possible and how?
I think you have to tell it to use the partition where XP is, not the entire disk. But, if you are thinking of sometimes booting the virtualized XP and others the real XP, from the same partition, forget it: the hardware that windows sees is different, and each time you change, it will complain that new hardware was found and please install it and reboot. Another feature of vmware is that you can take a snapshot of the system at a certain point; if days or weeks later you wish to go back, you do so and all modifications (files et all) are un-done. The trick works because it saves changes leaving the original file intact, in that mode. It is usefull to try installation of something. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHY9lQtTMYHG2NR9URAsKyAJ93EGuKyLZ6+WuVwawrJd7Myoo7TwCglUfr R9Lyf64J39aESWnzVOaFn8s= =AMpx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org