Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2008-01-15 Thread Mick
On Sunday 23 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote: I doubt that would work. The virtual machine identifies itself as different hardware from the host, so the MS profit-protection would kick in, claiming you were trying to run the same copy of the OS on two different computers. --

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2008-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 18:38 +, Mick wrote: On Sunday 23 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote: I doubt that would work. The virtual machine identifies itself as different hardware from the host, so the MS profit-protection would kick in, claiming you were trying to run the same

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:13:35 +0100, Thierry de Coulon wrote: You are right that XP should work - or you can install it on a virtual machine. I am not sure what advantages you get from running vmware from a partition (unless of course you also want to dual boot). I doubt that would work. The

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-23 Thread maxim wexler
I doubt that would work. The virtual machine identifies itself as different hardware from the host, so the MS profit-protection would kick in, claiming you were trying to run the same copy of the OS on two different computers. -- Neil Bothwick Mebbe I'm confusing wine with vmware.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-22 Thread maxim wexler
Be interested to hear from anyone else this has ever happened to. Maxim Do you mean the host PC shutsdown? And by sda1, do you mean you're installing to a NTFS partition and not to a virtual hard disk? Do I understand right that the installation of XP went OK but booting fails?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-22 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Sunday 23 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote: vmware hasn't even been merged yet. _Booting_ both OSes is OK. XP fails; gentoo does not. If I'm not mistaken XP has to at least work before vmware will. (...) I'm guessing it's my video card, a Radeon 9250 You are right that XP should work - or

[gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-21 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Trying to set up vmware, unfortunately the PC dies suddenly after booting WinXP. XP boots OK but anywhere between a couple of seconds to about 5 mins afterwards without any warning the PC simply shuts itself off. And when it reboots it doesn't complain about a sudden shutdown, just

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-21 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Saturday 22 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, Trying to set up vmware, unfortunately the PC dies suddenly after booting WinXP. XP boots OK but anywhere between a couple of seconds to about 5 mins afterwards without any warning the PC simply shuts itself off. And when it