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

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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)

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