WinXP on anotther partition running as guest OS: is it possible (for free)?

Brian Chadwick brianchad at westnet.com.au
Tue Mar 11 23:47:13 UTC 2008


Mike Wright wrote:
> Andre Costa wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have here Fedora 8 and WinXP on the same machine. I use XP mostly
>> for gaming, but every once in a while I have to edit some Word docs
>> sent by clients on MS Word. ... As much as I wish, OpenOffice isn't
>> just there yet, sometimes it messes with the docs, I already tried
>> this and received complaints about format changes. It sucks, and
>> eventually there will be 100% compatibility, but there's still some
>> ground to cover.
>>
>> According to VMWare Workstation FAQ I could run my installed XP as a
>> guest system, but I was wondering if there was no free alternative,
>> since it costs USD 189,00 and I will only need it every once in a
>> while.
>>
>> Anyone solved a similar problem? Any advice on what to use and what to
>> avoid? Any pitfalls?
>
> I've had good success with VirtualBox from http://www.virtualbox.org .
>
> Especially neat is the "seamless mode" where the Windows toolbar 
> appears at the bottom of your Fedora display.  When you run a Windows 
> program it shows up in a Fedora window.
>
> Audio also works well.
>
> Pitfalls:
>
>   During installation it will create a group called vboxusers.  You 
> must add yourself to that group, then logout and log back in; 
> otherwise, it won't run.  After that you won't need to go through that 
> step.
>
>   Find /dev/net/tun and chgrp it to vboxusers; otherwise, host mode 
> networking won't work.
>
> Other than that you should have no problems.
>
> Have fun,
> Mike Wright :m)
>
Find /dev/net/tun and chgrp it to vboxusers; otherwise, host mode 
networking won't work.

i didnt do that and it works fine here ... i just followed the VBox 
manual for installing host networking.




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