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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
