On Sunday 30 December 2007 09:42:22 am Jerry Houston wrote:
Kai Ponte wrote:
For some reason, the first thought I had, while lying there in pain was - hey: I can install XP on a smallish partition and have them encrypt that. Then I install SUSE 10.3 on the rest of the machine and it will be "compliant".
Another idea: I have a very satisfactory installation of XP-Pro running in a VirtualBox VM. Actually, I don't need it for anything, and I don't use it for anything, but I had an extra XP-Pro license here, and wanted to give it a try. So far, VirtualBox seems just as easy to use as VMware or VirtualPC, and may even be more capable than either of those.
Well, I think this solution will work. I do have a VMWare of XP on my external drive with Office 2003 and the all-important Visio (can't do without this!!) already loaded. I have now got XP loaded in SDA1 on a 5G partition. The rest of the drive is openSUSE 10.3 running just fine (no lockups in the past few hours) on the rest of the hard drive. The admin guys can encrypt XP and leave SUSE alone as far as i care. I'm going to send a separate email because I still can't get 3d working on my video card (Nvidia Quadro FX 1500M) under 10.3 for some reason. Oh, and the wireless is working fine now. Don't know why it didn't before. I'm thinking that sunspots or global warming had something to do with it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org