John What qualifies for 'geriatric' these days (worried :-) ) re: Virtual Machines If you've got a *full* version of XP on CD (doesn't work with 'upgrades') you can install, say VMWare, on Linux, then 'install' XP into that so for most purposes you will have XP under Linux. However with OEM versions (the one that came with your PC) and most versions of Vista Microsoft prohibits this in their ever-changing EULAs (I hope somebody clarifies this as I may be out of date on this)
Wikipedia on Virtual Machines <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine> Wikipedia on VMWare <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vmware> Hope this helps For Alan et al: Can anyone clarify how the new KVM kernels with 'virtualisation' built in fit into this scenario? Eddie -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
