Setting up a VM to run an F12 guest on an XP host

[William Witt]

On 11/29/2009 07:16 PM, john wendel wrote:
> On 11/29/2009 01:35 PM, Alan Milnes wrote:
>> 2009/11/28 john wendel<jwendel10 at comcast.net>:
>>>
>>> I know very little about Windows, so I'm seeking your advice.
>>>
>>> I'd like to run F12 on an XP box (so I can get some work done), could
>>> someone point me to the right software. The big problem is that I
>>> don't have
>>> admin privs on the XP box so I can't install anything. Is it even
>>> possible?
>>
>> You don't install F12 from within XP so as long as you can boot from a
>> CD/DVD this won't be an issue. Just boot from a F12 LiveCD and the
>> installer should sort it all out for you - this is called "Dual Boot",
>> each time the computer starts you have the choice to run F12 or
>> Windows XP (one will be set as a default and you will have 10 seconds
>> to make a decision when the screen comes up).
>>
>> Alan
>>
>
> Unfortunately, there is an intrusion detection system on the network
> that keeps me from setting up a dual-boot system. If I boot the F12 live
> cd, my network connection is disabled and the admins come and beat me
> about the head. So I think running F12 in a VM is going to be the best I
> can do.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>

I may be coming out of left field on this, but if you are working in the 
kind of place that has intrusion detection on the network, (I'm a 
sysadmin on such a network), then you are probably better off talking to 
the sysadmins.  If you really need it to do your job, there may be some 
approved virtualization tech that they are more than happy to install 
for you, or the security people will shoot it down.  If it's the 
organization's hardware and network then they have every right to 
approve or deny the installation of software.  If you really, truly, 
need to use it to do your job and they deny it, get the denial in 
writing so you can CYA.

Where I work, if someone were caught installing software on the systems 
I administer like this, that person would probably loose their job and 
possibly their freedom for several years.

Will