Re: Partition Management

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On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Genes MailLists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/01/2011 09:31 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:

>> why dual boot this days?
>>
>> "windows XP on due to constraints at her work" sounds not
>> like playing 3d games and all other things are running fine
>> in a virtual machine, most time faster than a physical
>> winxp, without driver troubles and you can take the winxp
>> to the next computer as any other data-file

>
>  Yep - good point - I am running it in a VM (I use Oracle's virtualbox)
> works very well indeed -
>
>   and it boots a lot faster - and you get all the advantages of a VM
> such as disk snapshots, easy ability to copy the entire VM and boot on
> different machine etc ..

I'll second that - and in addition it is very easy indeed to make
backups of the VM since they are simply files in the linux system - so
even if the disk dies restoring from backup is simple, and needs no
re-install of XPfrom scratch with its attendant followup preparation
pain - and also if you install XP to a physical machine there is the
inevitable pain of installing all the drivers from scratch, as well as
running the incessant series of Windows update->boot->more Windows
update->boot until you are really irritated with having to baby sit
the whole process in order to click OK every 20 minutes before it will
proceed - once you have the VM set up and up to date then keeping a
backup or restoring Windows is really easy and a lot less painful than
dual booting.

I don't maintain any more Fedora/Windows dual boot machines once I got
used to running XP in a VM (I guess you can do the same for Fedora
with Windows 8 as well)

-- 
mike c
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