Dennis Gallien wrote:

IIRC openSUSE comes with the OSE version. I have used the Oracle version downloaded as an .rpm from virtualbox.org for years, and it has worked very well.

That link is a year old, so keep that in mind. The author prefers VMware, which I've also used. It's excellent if enterprise-class mgmt or development capability is what you need, but for a regular desktop/laptop user IME vbox is much simpler and easier.

---- I wondered about the age, but better safe than sorry. VMware is a bit of a pain but workable, though I wanna set this up for a little bit mroe than desktop/laptop -- it probably won't get too much more use than such...not sure -- only reason I'm trying to set it up is XP's indexing service -- I can index my local server files and that, in turn, can be read by Win7's crippled, can't network indexing service... I'll probably try Christian's suggestion with aqemu/KVM... hopefully I can at least get it up on my local net... after that.. just need it to run indexing and I can use remote desktop to log-into it (I hope)... Thanks!! (and thanks Christian...(I hope))...;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Linda Walsh <suse@tlinx.org> wrote:

only reason I'm trying to set it up is XP's indexing service

I've provided sworn affidavits about the quality of Windows Search (see my sig block). I suggest you not depend on it. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer CNN/TruTV Aired Forensic Imaging Demo - http://insession.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/23/how-computer-evidence-gets-retriev... The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Linda Walsh <suse@tlinx.org> wrote:

Greg Freemyer wrote:

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On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Linda Walsh <suse@tlinx.org> wrote:

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only reason I'm trying to set it up is XP's indexing service

I've provided sworn affidavits about the quality of Windows Search (see my sig block).

I suggest you not depend on it.

Greg

---- And your suggestion for anything that indexes network disks and integrates into win7's search as a replacement?

I.e. anything that is more reliable?

I don't know how well it integrates, but the pseudo low-cost tool of choice in my industry is DTsearch. It handles a lot of different file types and targets users outside the legal market space, so it should be a reasonable choice for you to look at. http://www.dtsearch.com/index.html I've only ever used the DTsearch Desktop version, and even that was years ago. I did run a few TB of data through it I'm sure. No real problems except it was relatively slow at index creation. Maybe 10GB / hr for standard docs and 1 GB/hr for PSTs. Again that was 5 years ago so everything is faster now, but GB counts of data to be searched has also exploded. ===> higher end options that I doubt fit your need I use NUIX for most searching these days. They have a $100 version that caps out at 15GB (prooffinder) of indexed data. Their first real intro version which has no data cap is $7K. With it we create indexes at about 100GB/24 hours. I doubt it is appropriate for what you want anyway, but you can see the good quality search tools can be expensive. My favorite searching tool is actually Index Engines, but they have a enterprise search pricing model that gets you to 6 figures in a hurry. The huge advantage of Index Engines is it is blindingly fast. They claim index creation speeds of up to 800 GB/hr if your NAS can send it to them that fast. (Not many can). I have a 5 year old version of Index Engines and I've seen in create indexes at almost 200GB/hr, so I don't doubt the new generation is considerably faster. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org