Eberhard Roloff a écrit :

jdd wrote:

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Hello :-)

I have a new laptop with vista and installed easily 10.3.

May I use the vista partition from virtualbox (preferably) or vmware?

I fear to kill it trying :-(

thanks jdd

I do not know about virtualbox.

With vmware, you could have a chance.

I tried recently with XP running inside Linux on VMware Server from the physical partition that it is originally installed on.

This works great and the response times are way quicker than using XP from virtaul disks. Backside: Not having a corporate licenses I needed to reactivate XP for this, since the virtual hardware differs substantially from the physical hardware that XP sees, when you boot with it.

I could not try with Vista and also I did not find anything about Vista in that regard.

For a start, I used an article from Linux Mag (www.linux-mag.com) and googled my way.

kind regards and please report back how it works and what you did to make it work.

Eberhard

Hello, If it happens to work since hardwares are different, Vista will detect that it is installed on a new machine and will no longer be activated on your laptop!! Take care. Michel. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org