I wish I could answer that question. The mechanics of this program are still very foggy to me. It asked me what virtual machine I wanted to make, and I filled in the blanks, mainly how much RAM I wanted, whether dynamically sized or fixed, and how much HD space. I don't remember a question like the one you ask.
I'm guessing that you created the virtual disk, but didn't install the OS into it yet. You do have the installer disks, don't you?
Disks? You mean Windows disk? But from reading about the program I understood that VB is an emulator, and doesn't require Windows disks, but uses a set of translation tables to convert Windows calls to go through the host machine. That's why it can support only a small set of guest machines. Have I misunderstood this?
Completely. VirtualBox is not Wine... you're mixing them up. Wine provides the mapping for the Windows api to Linux. VirtualBox provides you a virtual computer. If you set up a Win2K image, you still need to install Windows 2000 from your master disks into that virtual machine. A virtual machine like VirtualBox, VMWare, MS Virtual PC and so on, are all basically a software implementation of a real computer. It allows you to emulate the _hardware_ of a real computer and install a supported OS onto that emulated hardware. So, in that VirtualBox, you can install Win2k, WinXP, Vista, pretty much any Linux variation, OpenSolaris and a few other OS types. You must install from the master disks or ISOs, just as if you were installing on a real machine. Does that clear it up a bit? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org