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* app-emulation/virtualbox Latest version available: 4.0.12 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 67,936 kB Homepage: http://www.virtualbox.org/ Description: Family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use License: GPL-2 ... I'd recommend vbox then ... just works. Almost as easy as dual boot and less risk to the base system (i.e., getting the disk order wrong on install and overwriting the existing OS) - by the way sharing your home directory (vs /home as a different user) is fraught - many apps use different configs depending on versions - 'evolution' for instance could really break your email as later versions switch to a database format and subsequent versions fiddle with it. Install it, open vbox-manager from the menu and create a new VM with whatever specs you want, put the CD for suse in and point the Vbox CD to it in setup and "go". You might need to read up on kernel options for virtualisation if you have a customised kernel vs genkernel to get the best (almost native) performance. Love vms for dev work - snapshot it regularly so you can wind back the clock when necessary ... BillK -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing /home and swap Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:37:34 +0800 On 28/12/2011 1:30 PM, W.Kenworthy wrote: > If its only one app, why not use a small vm (qemu, vbox etc.)? - best of > both worlds. Basically because I've done nothing with these thingies and have no experience with them and therefore didn't think of them...... Might be worth looking into - got a link to a "20 words or less" intro? > > Also, why only on Suse? - you can often work around differences with > ld-preload and other tricks. The third party app is under development, I'm tying some stuff into it, and things are a bit fluid at the moment. I think basically taking a couple of hours to set something up once and that's it is quicker than trying to work around library problems that will arise in an ongoing manner. > > > BillK > Andrew