Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2459 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kai Ponte pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> On Sunday 02 March 2008 02:29:37 am jdd wrote:
> > well, I installed XP in virtualbox and it works (the sound)
> >
> > so far so good, one point for open source :-))
>
> Very good!
>
> I like virtual box, as i use it for the 11.0 alpha testing. I only use vmware 
> because my xp image is several years old and I don't feel like recreating it.

You can use VMware images in VirtualBox with little in the way of
tweaks. I copied my W2000 image to VirtualBox and only needed to remove
the VMware tools package first, run the installer to take care of the
change in the "virtual hardware" and then install the VirtualBox tools
package.

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Ken Schneider
SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
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