I still have to support the occasional XP client even though I manage a data center (some of our devs still work in XP) so I use VirtualBox to run a virtual XP client. That way if they have a question or I need to describe or document something I can start it up and work in XP right on my Windows 7 desktop.
Works great and it's free. Dan Sent from my iPad On Jan 27, 2013, at 12:32 AM, Fmiser <fmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> M G wrote: > >> Thank you for clearing up some of my misconceptions Philip. > > Sure! That's kinda the point of this MBZ list - to teach each > other about computers. Oh, yeah. And Mercedes Benz too. *grin* > >> The problem with the program disks is not a problem if the >> computer is running XP directly as the disk will be either >> exchanged with the disk already in the computer or if the disk >> in the computer is bigger then the old disk will be cloned >> onto the new disk. That way everything will still work, or >> should anyway. > > Ah! I have not tried it, but I suspect you can clone an image > onto a virtual machine harddrive. The guest sees the harddrive > file as a real harddrive, so unless the cloning occurs below the > file system level, I would expect it to work. And if the > cloning occurs below the file system level, I would expect the > target would have to be exactly the same size as the image. > > But I'm speculating - 'cause I've never dealt with that > particular situation. > > It should not be hard to try. VirtualBox is free and the guest > you build on a MSWin host will work just as well on a Linux > host. You will probably need a licensed copy of MSWin, though. > > -- Philip > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
