Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2459 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erik Jakobsen pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> > Ken Schneider pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > I should add that the installer I refer to is the windows installer for
> > the version of windows you are using.
>
> How are you making Windows images to be put in Virtualbox ?

It is a VMware disk image.

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Ken Schneider
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