Re: Attempting to install SL 7 on Dell Precision T1700

2015-10-20 Thread Brandon Vincent
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Yasha Karant  wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with this platform?  Any suggestions?  Are 
> there BIOS (secure boot, whatever) configurations that must be used other
> than what came with the MS Windows system?

You'll want to make sure that secure boot is disabled. Additionally,
ensure that the system is set to boot in legacy mode and not UEFI.
You'll also want to turn off Nvidia Optimus if it is an option in the
BIOS. My bet is on the last one.

Brandon Vincent


Re: Need a viable licensed for free replacement for VirtualBox

2015-10-20 Thread Lamar Owen

On 10/19/2015 11:26 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:


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Is there a "better" migration procedure than that above?



While I am running Win7 64 bit on KVM on EL 7 just fine, my path to 
getting it there was not by migration (and even if it had been, it would 
have been from VMware Fusion since I have never used VirtualBox), so I 
can't comment on whether there is a better way or not.  If you'll make a 
good full backup of the source image files before doing anything you can 
then try it out yourself and if it doesn't work you can try again.