F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?
Alex de Jong
alexander.dejong at home.nl
Fri Feb 20 17:18:22 UTC 2009
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?
>
>
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