On 2014-12-19 21:16, ellanios82 wrote:
On 12/19/2014 09:23 PM, jdd wrote:
Le 19/12/2014 16:09, ellanios82 a écrit :
- perhaps it is a lot less sweat, to run Win XP on Linux, in VirtualBox?
not everything can be done in virtual machine :-(
- what sorts of stuff is the virtual machine unable to cope with ?
Hardware related things, mostly. For instance, after some update, some years ago, my tomtom car navigator stopped being able to connect with the windows management tool in a virtualized XP, via USB. I did not find a solution. I was forced to double boot to Windows instead. It worked virtualized for some time, then an update broke it. I don't know what changed, vmware server or the tomtom software. Nor do I know if it was intentional or accidental. Then, in my experience, the virtualized Windows runs slower than the "real" one. As my laptop came with it installed, with a proper license, why change it? Making it work, with the same license, virtualized, can be a problem. I don't see much advantage in a laptop, which is not a powerful one anyway. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)