F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

[Alex de Jong]

There's no need to get rid of wine, since you're running XP completely 
seperate of your Linux install.
Which virtualisationprogram are you running? I guess you should be able 
to add another CD/DVD-drive by directory in your virtualisation program.

Beartooth wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:41:28 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
>
>   
>> Beartooth wrote:
>>     
>>> 	What of Rahul's comment, further up the thread, saying "KVM
>>> (assuming you have the hardware support) with Virt-manager (if you need
>>> a GUI)"??
>>>       
> 	[...]
>   
>>     ....For AMD....
>>     grep svm /proc/cpuinfo
>>     flags           : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat
>>     pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp
>>     lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm cr8_legacy
>>
>> If both those commands return nothing, you don't have hardware
>> virtualisation support.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>     
>
> 	Very much, thanks. I tried both grep commands (what I know of 
> hardware would go in a gnat's eye.), got something very like the one 
> above, did "yum install kvm virt-manager," and got both plus ten 
> dependencies.
>
> 	Is there a better way to get started than a man page?
>
> 	Should I be getting rid of wine, or of the wine-install of the 
> programs I have?
>
> 	Is there a way to get XP off my other hard drive, instead of a CD 
> or DVD?
>
>