Basil Chupin schreef:
Jos van Kan wrote: (snippage)
I recommend to run XP in a virtual machine (VMWare, or Parallels for 1/4 of the price) rather than dual booting if it is only lightly used. (Browsing, mailing, chatting) That way it runs cosily in a 4 GB sandbox (or larger if you wish) and you don't have to reboot each time you want to use windows. On top of that you have access to *both* the Linux and XP file systems using Samba.
I dual-boot and am pretty tired of it. To overcome this to-ing and fro-ing, yesterday I installed Win4Lin Desktop Pro 3 and today XP Pro (in a 9GB file). Installation for both was a breeze and XP runs like the real thing. Haven't yet installed any apps. in XP but as I had W4L when it first came out some years back I don't expect too many hassles with anything.
If you want to use it for watching movies then it's a different story.
Watching movies in Linux is not a problem at all. All one needs to do is to install xine. Magic.
(more snippage) I wasn't talking about watching movies in Linux, I was talking about watching movies in XP running on a VM and exchanging the video file using samba. :-) Now I'm sure somewhere this set up can be improved on, but as it is the result is pathetic. Lots of dropped frames and the sound horribly out of sync. Why would someone do a thing like that? Ah, good question. I think it's the same as why someone climbs Mt. Everest, although on seconds thoughts I somehow think that is way easier. :-) Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704