Time is approaching fast for a software system rebuild on my desktop machine. My current set-up is largely a series of work-arounds to get going again as quickly as possible after a motherboard replacement and addition of a SATA drive to an existing EIDE. I still have hardware issues to work past, but the current system is a WinXP host with Kubuntu 8.04 and Mepis running as guests under Virtual Box.
My problem in essence is that I love to download and test drive software but am not set up to do so without introducing instability to the core system, particularly given that it is WinXP. So here's the broad strokes fantasy for the rebuilt system in need of a reality check: 1.Host system: a minimalist Linux pretty much used only to host virtual guests. 2. Guest virtual systems: a. Production Kubuntu 8.04 (not used for testing software); b. Production WinXP (not used for testing software) c. Other guest OS instances as desired for software testing and playing purposes. My production need for WinXP is actually fairly minimal; WordPerfect and Isys Desktop search are my only "don't want to do without" Windows apps, other than utilities needed to maintain WinXP. All of my other production itches can be scratched on Linux. So a shared physical partition for data seems workable, something I've done previously in dual-boot scenarios without virtualization. I don't know whether Microsoft will allow me to have dual virtual instances of WinXP Pro (non-OEM version), but I could pick up a copy of XP Home for my purposes. No interest in Vista. Are there any obvious gotchas in the way of this scenario? Best regards, Paul -- Universal Interoperability Council <http:www.universal-interop-council.org> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
