Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 schrieb John E. Perry:
[...] My problem is that virtualbox and vmware, from what I've read, require that I install xp under the virtualizer so it can modify the xp code to run under it.
Really? According to http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes the only Windows that would need VT-x or similar is 98. However, I never tried to install XP, thus, you could be right. BTW, where did you read this?
But my laptop shipped with a "restore" disk, which starts restoration by wiping the hard drive and copying xp onto the single-partition disk.
AFAIK, it is not possible to use recovery CD or similar. At least, I did not find another answer than "no" on http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewforum.php?f=2
I don't have an installable copy of xp for my laptop.
Try to get an OEM installation CD of the same type (language, Home/Professional).
Can anyone suggest a way around this problem?
You could try to import your native installation, but this does not seem to be that easy: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=1966 Gruß Jan -- For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org