On 08/12/16 15:56, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 12/7/2016 11:29 AM, Philip Jackson <philip.jack...@nordnet.fr> wrote: >> It would be nice if I could just create a VB machine and tell it to load >> the hard disk which already has the workable installation of Windows 10, >> together with the couple of applications I use from time to time. > > You mean something like this: > > https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows > Thanks for this link - it looks promising. But I do see some tech speak that I'm not familiar with like ACPI and APIC. A quick look shows that my Windows installation has AGP440.sys and intelppm.sys so that's another couple of potential problems.
But I think I'll give it a try over the end of year holiday period after I've cleared up some outstanding job items. My primary reason for booting into Windows from time to time (maybe a couple of times a month) is to use Sibelius music notation software. But I'm gradually getting used to Musescore in linux so maybe the dependence on Sibelius will reduce. I wouldn't like to have to reinstall Sibelius in a virtual machine so it would be ideal if I could use the existing installation which is in the same box but on another disk. I regret, somewhat, upgrading 7 to 10. W7 used to boot-up rapidly like linux but 10 takes from 3 to 5 minutes to be usable -probably because it was an upgrade and not a clean install. What I find the saddest about Windows, though, is the way MS updates so often want to install themselves just when I want to shut down and then so often require a reboot or even two reboots before shut down. If I am not there to watch the install and catch the reboot manually, my desktop defaults to linux when Windows triggers its reboot. So the next time I want to boot into windows, I find that a previous update has not yet completed and I'm forced to wait while it does. Linux updates always go on seamlessly in the background and only occasionally require a reboot - never in the middle of an installation. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
