On 7/30/2010 1:56 AM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 07/29/2010 10:32 PM, John E. Perry wrote:>>
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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
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:55:47 Doug wrote: 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
it were. However, when starting
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
allows XP to be run "in a window" as this, it's just like booting XP from performance of Virtual Box, also, then
is it worth the trouble to use it?
--doug
It depends, Doug. If you use XP only occassionally, then yes. I use it for another reason. I have a number of different networks that I need to plug into for equipment maintenance purposes, plus the default subnets that different manufacturers use for their equipment that you need for configuration purposes when installing new gear. Some of that equipment requires bespoke software that only runs on Windows, but continually changing network settings on Windows is a pain (and some software doesn't like having multiple ip adressess/subnets assigned to the same network card). Solution: I run openSuSE 11.3 with NetworkManager and have all the necessary networks preconfigured so that I can select the one I need on demand. I then run XP in VirtualBox with NAT networking. I never need to touch XP's network configuration - all the different networks are handled by the host and I can change with a single click (or two). Oh, btw, I virtualised the physical XP partition on the machine and run the VM from that, rather than creating a new VM - that way all my software was still installed and I have the option of booting back into native Windows should I ever need to. Performance-wise, it is slightly slower to start Windows this way but once started the difference in performance is barely noticeable, if at all (at least on my hardware which is a core2-duo at 2GHz with 2B RAM and Intel graphics, and that is running in seamless mode (where the Windows desktop is hidden, apart from the start bar at the bottom of the screen and the windows apps appear to be running directly on the Linux desktop). My KDE4 panel is at the top of the screen so I don't get conflicts between the two. I -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =========================================== ======== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org