Quoting Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>:
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org