> Greg wrote: I'm late to the party here, but thought I'd add my comments anyway.
> I want to ditch XP > 1.If I run XP in a virtualbox under Linux, does that provide the > internet security I get with linux? It depends - but typically no. VirtualBox guest has either "raw" (bridged) access to the physical connector or NAT and/or firewalled connection. But without setting up a very aggressive firewall, it won't keep XP from initiating nasty exchanges. > 3.If I were to run a dual boot instead, is there a simple way to > enable access to the network drive but disable internet access > when booting into XP? Yup. Set the gateway address wrong. LAN is accessible, but it goes knocking at the wrong address for everything beyond. It will work in a VirtualBox guest too. -- Philip _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
