Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2747 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Ervine wrote:
> On Thursday 01 November 2007 02:05:12 David C. Rankin wrote:
> > Erik Jakobsen wrote:
> > > David C. Rankin wrote:
> > > > Erik Jakobsen wrote:
> > > > > Not that this helps on VMware, but opensuse has Virtualbox, that
> > > > > I installed Windows XP on. Works nice BTW.
> > > > What mods to XP are required to get it to run?
> > > mods=modifications ?.
> > >
> > > None at all. I just installed it as usual.
> > You must have hardware virtualization "vmx" in your processor?
>
> Not for VMware. VMware provides a fully emulated hardware environment in 
> which to install non-modified guest operating systems. There are no 
> modifications required to VMware, Windows XP, or openSUSE 10.3 [1] in 
> order to have Windows XP as a guest OS.
>
> You're possibly confusing the hardware virtualisation flags with Xen and 
> hardware assisted virtualisation for non-modified operating systems...
>
> Jon
>
> [1] Installing and configuring VMware will compile some kernel modules 
> such as vmmon and vmnet that the vmware daemon will load into the 
> running kernel of the host OS

Thank you Johathan!

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