On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 10:41:05, James E. LaBarre wrote: > On 11/28/2012 10:30 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Does that mean that the era of easily dual-booting Windows machines is > > over? That sucks, I did this for many, many friends. If I read you > > correctly, installing a dual boot on a Windows 8 system requires > > quite some efforts. > > Of course, one could make the sarcastic remark that *not* being able to > boot Win8 is not necessarily a bad thing <g>.
It is if you don't want to void the Warranty. > I'm just wondering how readily Win8 could be converted to a virtual > machine image. Other than the potential performance hit from running it > inside a VM (and the pain of getting the > interface-formerly-known-as-Metro to behave in a VM window), I expect it > could do most anything you need it to do in a virtualized environment. The catch is that the IdeaPad P500 didn't come with any reinstallation media -- so the Windows 8 partition(s)/filesystem(s) would need to somehow be copied to a VM directly somehow. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Dec 5 - SysAdmin Panel Jan 9 - High Performance Computing Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi
