On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 02:36:07PM +0100, Clayton wrote:
My main prob is that I am using a VM under VMWare for 5 years now (VMware 4 (SUSE 8.2), then VMware 6.02 (OpenSUSE 10.3)), and since VMware 6.02 does not work on OpenSUSE 11.2 I will have to figure out whether I install a brandnew VM under VirtualBox (time consuming, moving data from VM --> HD, then copy back data from HD-->New VM) or buy VMware 7.0.
Why would you need to reinstall? VirtualBox understands/opens VMDX images. In theory you shoudl be able to simply point VBox at your VMDX and boot - although, for testing purposes I'd suggest you make a copy of your existing VMDX and boot the copy until you're confident that VirtualBox can boot the VN~MDX and works correctly for your needs.
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows is a useful place of information. In particular the hint to enable APIC. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany