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Yo Mark! |
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> So that's a couple of votes for Virtual-Box. (That's from Sun |
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> correct?) emerge virtualbox-bin? It seems to want me to fetch |
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> something first. I'll have to check into that. |
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You need 2.1.12 to support Win7 beta. Portage just has 2.0.6. So |
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I use the binaries from Sun: |
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http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions |
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They are easy to install, although the driver module I have had to |
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rebuild manually lately. |
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> What about disk space for each virtual machine? Does the |
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> vmware/virtualbox installation grab some part of the physical disk to |
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> start, or does it see all the disks in my system and then I grab some |
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> portion of those to do my partitioning for each installation? |
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You create a virtual disk as a file in your normal partition. The guest |
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OS thinks the disk is fixed size, but it only takes up as much real |
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space are required. The snapshots also take up space. The VM can |
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only see as much of the rest of your HD as you let it by fake 'Network |
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Shares'. |
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> Any extra requirements for an XP installation over and above what I'd |
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> give XP itself? |
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Nope. |
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RGDS |
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GARY |
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