On 23/09/10 05:29, Mark Allums wrote: > On 9/21/2010 6:51 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> To satisfy my curiosity I have been trying (without success) to get >> Debian installed and running in Windoof 7 Virtual PC. >> >> What I have discovered is that:- >> 1. If you run Windoof 7 in VirtualBox (under Debian) it runs fine - >> given an inordinate amount of RAM. However it immediately freezes when I >> attempt to start the W7VPC. Hmmmm... > > > I am probably way late on this one, but that maneuver is a nonstarter. > Nested Virtualization is very difficult and kind of pointless. A few > security researchers[0] have done it, mostly as a stunt to prove a > technical point, but it is very unstable. You *can* run DOSbox in a VM, > but generally the question is, why would you? > > 0. Google Joanna Rutkowska, Blue Pill > > Understood. Nested virtualization was *not* the point, or objective of the exercise. If your intentions are instructive/supportive, please read the thread "ps - illegal instruction" to catch up.
A few? Difficult? Stunts? (sigh) Sorry Joanna - at this point I need more coffee before I start biting things for the sake of biting :-/ Cheers -- *In case you never receive this mail, please notify me immediately* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c9abe77.1090...@gmail.com