Re: [opensuse] Virtualise within 10.3

2007-12-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:20:36 +0200 gceruti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks I need to start getting all the household away from M$, dual boot is not the way, I would like them to load OpenSUSE and then if need be start the M$ program they need. So some questions: I must reinstall

Re: [opensuse] Virtualise within 10.3

2007-12-16 Thread Ken Schneider
Jerry Feldman pecked at the keyboard and wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:20:36 +0200 gceruti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks I need to start getting all the household away from M$, dual boot is not the way, I would like them to load OpenSUSE and then if need be start the M$ program

Re: [opensuse] Virtualise within 10.3

2007-12-16 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-12-16 at 10:56 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: 2. VMWare Server. I had this running on my Linux laptop last summer. While this worked fine, when I started up the laptop, the Windows virtual machine would also start up. I don't see

Re: [opensuse] Virtualise within 10.3

2007-12-15 Thread Paul Hands
Virtualbox is superb, and it's free! I have windoze XP and 3 other Linux distros working as guests in Virtualbox on SuSE 10.3 P. http://www.virtualbox.org/ gceruti wrote: Hi Folks I need to start getting all the household away from M$, dual boot is not the way, I would like them to

Re: [opensuse] Virtualise within 10.3

2007-12-15 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-15 at 00:16 +0100, jdd wrote: one thing is not clear and I have yet to investigate: I need to use a pre-existant XP install in a raw disk. * virtualbox say don't boot from raw disk, you can corrupt the data, so I didn't

Re: [opensuse] Virtualise within 10.3

2007-12-15 Thread Ken Schneider
Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote: complain that new hardware was found and please install it and reboot. Another feature of vmware is that you can take a snapshot of the system at a certain point; VirtualBox has this also. if days or weeks later you wish to go back, you do

Re: [opensuse] Virtualise within 10.3

2007-12-14 Thread Alexey Eremenko
hi Gerard ! I have just been reading the VirtualBox doco, so I will give that a go first. There are two types of documentation, official (comes with VirtualBox, generic for all OSes), and openSUSE specific (comes with openSUSE 10.3). You can find the openSUSE specific guide if you install

Re: [opensuse] Virtualise within 10.3

2007-12-14 Thread jdd
Alexey Eremenko wrote: hi Gerard ! I have just been reading the VirtualBox doco, so I will give that a go first. There are two types of documentation, official (comes with VirtualBox, generic for all OSes), and openSUSE specific (comes with openSUSE 10.3). You can find the openSUSE

[opensuse] Virtualise within 10.3

2007-12-13 Thread gceruti
Hi Folks I need to start getting all the household away from M$, dual boot is not the way, I would like them to load OpenSUSE and then if need be start the M$ program they need. So some questions: I must reinstall M$, I cannot use a PC that has M$ already installed. What are the options here

Re: [opensuse] Virtualise within 10.3

2007-12-13 Thread Peter Bloomfield
On Thursday 13 December 2007 16:20, gceruti wrote: Hi Folks I need to start getting all the household away from M$, dual boot is not the way, I would like them to load OpenSUSE and then if need be start the M$ program they need. So some questions: I must reinstall M$, I cannot use a PC

Re: [opensuse] Virtualise within 10.3

2007-12-13 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 13 December 2007 13:20, gceruti wrote: Hi Folks I need to start getting all the household away from M$, dual boot is not the way, I would like them to load OpenSUSE and then if need be start the M$ program they need. So some questions: I must reinstall M$, I cannot use a PC

Re: [opensuse] Virtualise within 10.3

2007-12-13 Thread gceruti
On Thursday 13 December 2007 23:30:07 Randall R Schulz wrote: On Thursday 13 December 2007 13:20, gceruti wrote: Hi Folks I need to start getting all the household away from M$, dual boot is not the way, I would like them to load OpenSUSE and then if need be start the M$ program they