On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> From: Emmanuel Noobadmin <centos.admin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Centos|Windows Cross Platform File Managers
>
> On 7/2/11, Keith Roberts <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I'm not a lover of M$ stuff, but the application I need to
>> run is Windows only, and doing a fresh install of Vista as I
>> also have the Tech Guys recovery disk seems like the easiest
>> option for me.
>
> I'm probably a bit biased since lately I've been messing around with
> virtual machines too much. If you installed Vista only for that single
> app, would it had been easier if you installed Vista as a virtual
> guest on your system, using a raw partition which you can then access
> from the host CentOS using the filemanager you're already familar
> with? Or did the app require too much graphical processing power to be
> viable in a guest OS?
I did want to try doing that, but AFAIK my processor does
not support the required VM instructions.
/proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : AMD Duron(tm)
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 1200.003
cache size : 64 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic
: mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr
: sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up
: nonstop_tsc ts
bogomips : 2400.00
Is that correct?
The other thing is, I read that to install a Windows OS in a
VM you will need the proper full OS installation disk, and I
only have the original 'Tech Guys' Advent laptop recovery
disk, so I have just done a fresh install onto the laptop.
Apparently the Windows recovery disk checks for some sort of
ID string somewhere in the lappy's BIOS, and it does not
even prompt for the M$ licence key serial number.
Kind Regards,
Keith
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