On Saturday 07 February 2009 14:28:15 Stan Goodman wrote:
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?
VB isn't an 'emulator,' it's virtualization software. It creates a virtual computer in software on the host system (Linux in this case) the guest OS (Windows in this case) thinks that the virtual system is real and interacts with it as if it were. The hypervisor software on the host talks to the real hardware and makes the virtual machine behave as though it were real. To make this work, you must create a virtual disk and virtual network interfaces, a virtual sound card and a virtual video controller. The setup wizard in VB steps you though these. You'll recall that you were asked to select the size of the virtualized RAM and the size of the virtual hard disk. The others are assigned default settings. Once the virtual machine is created by the wizard, you must install the guest OS into it as though it were a real computer. HTH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org