F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

[Bill Davidsen]

Beartooth wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:18:22 +0100, Alex de Jong wrote:
> 
>> There's no need to get rid of wine, since you're running XP completely
>> seperate of your Linux install.
>> Which virtualisation program are you running? I guess you should be able
>> to add another CD/DVD-drive by directory in your virtualisation program.
> 
> 	Well, now I'm really buffaloed. I went looking through the menus 
> for KVM (which I did not find), and in the process discovered that, God 
> knows how or why, virtualbox and xen are also on this machine.
> 
> 	Since I had seen a report that virtualbox could handle the app I 
> need (Garmin's Topo US 2008), and I did have a launcher for it, I tried 
> that first; but it requires a serial port, and virtual box says I don't 
> have permission at /dev/ttyS0, which seems to be the path to use for com1.
> 
> 	So color me bewildered. If I can find out how to launch KVM, I'll 
> try that next ...
> 
As a test you might want to make yourself the owner of the device or run the 
virtualbox as root. Find out if that solves the problem.

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