Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1487 mails)

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Doug <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 7/30/2010 1:56 AM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
> > On 07/29/2010 10:32 PM, John E. Perry wrote:>>
> /snip/
> > Hi John,
> >
> > I've never had to worry about which kernel was installed. Why don't you
> > just try VirtualBox first?
> >
> > Try downloading the "All distributions" link for your architecture here:
> >
> > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
> >
> > As root, change the downloaded file's permission bits:
> >
> > "chmod 775 VirtualBox-3.2.6-63112-Linux_amd64.run" for example.
> >
> > Make sure you have the kernel sources install from yast2, then just
> > run the executable run file. The kernel modules will be compiled and
> > installed for you. Then run VirtualBox. The VirtualBox hypervisor
> > should appear and you can then get started installing Win-XP.
> >
> > I've never had this fail, and I've installed many versions of VirtualBox
> > on all the openSuSE 11.x versions. VirtualBox is an excellent package!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Lew
> I haven't tried Virtual Box, but I make the following observation, and
> welcome anyone's comment on it:
>
> Windows 7 has a virtualizer which allows XP to be run "in a window" as
> it were.  However, when starting this, it's just like booting XP from
> scratch on a machine where it's the only OS in use.  In other words,
> you don't save any time this way. And it's not really straightforward to
> share files or data between W7 and the virtual XP, altho it is possible.
>
> If this is representative of the performance of Virtual Box, also,
> then is it worth the trouble to use it?

Performance in VirtualBox (VB) for most applications (e.g., Quicken, not the
latest Quake/Doom/etc.) is quite acceptable and nearly native speed.  If the
Windows 7 virutualized XP makes it hard to share files, then VB is ahead of
it.  VB allows a "networked" drive that maps to a directory in the host
filesystem.

Jeffrey
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