Hiya,<br><br>Things here in Edinburgh were going fine until I was told that for our RAD course this term we're using, wait for it, VB.NET!?! I mean seriously, wtf? Anyway, that kinda means I have to create a working windows system somehow on my carefully set up Linux machine here(almost tears now lol).
<br><br>I'm aware I could reinstall everything and create a dual boot with XP/Linux but I don't really want to mess about with things just now. I also looked at setting up XP on an external drive but the hacks involved scared the **** outta me.
<br><br>I know Gordon's done a fair bit of virtualisation and I'm sure more of you have. Basically, is it a viable option to set up a virtual machine running winXP to do my windows development on? Will it function and be fast enough? (I'll attach my specs).
<br><br>If so, what VM software would you recommend(Qemu/Xen/VMware/other?) and any links to tuts on setting it up would be appreciated. the ones I've found so far seem to think that the install will be too slow to work from properly, which would be a shame.
<br><br>I'm running Elive Gem(so Debian Etch) on:<br>Centrino Duo @ 1.66GHz<br>1Gb RAM<br>~1Gb Swap<br>120Gb HDD<br><br>Ooh, also if anyone could recommend a large(>=300Gb) USB2 external drive that works well with *nux that would be fantastic.
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