On 07/29/2010 10:32 PM, John E. Perry wrote:
So, I got my Windows xp reinstalled and working perfectly, and updated to 11.3. Tired of dual-boot, especially now that my job requires me to go more often to Windows, I looked into VirtualBox. Looks clear enough on vavai's web site and the VB site, but ...
Vavai says I absolutely _have_ to have the kernel-default. Using his instructions, I find I have kernel-desktop installed. So I look for instructions to change kernel.
The wiki is empty, as far as I can find (23 pages naming "kernel", none telling how to change the kernel without reinstalling). Is it possible to change kernels without reinstalling 11.3? I can, but it seems so extravagant...
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org