[dundee] Virtualisation, any wise words?

[gordon dunlop]

I also must mention that on your Windoze virtual machine you have to put
on security software e.g. avg anti-virus free, spyware blaster (free),
spybot (free) and keep them updated. It is such a pain in setting up  a
Windoze virtual machine after installation, it takes a lot of time
adding the extras, it is great putting on a Linux Mint virtual machine
where all you have to do is the updates (All codecs are in the
installallation).  For the past few days I have been playing about with
Revisor in Fedora 7 where you can make your own customised CD,DVD, Live
CD/DVD by downloading separate packages from different Fedora
Repositories, Fedora is the only distribution where you can define
individual packages at installation using the Anaconda installer (unless
someone tells me otherwise). With Revisor you can make an install DVD
with all propriety codecs, like Linux Mint, or make a server only
distribution within minimum software packages that can run out of the
box. In fact you can make anything that you want to run out of the box,
this intrigues me. I will probably be playing with this for the next few
weeks.

Gordon

chris wyllie wrote:
>
>  Basically, is it a viable option to set up a virtual machine running
> winXP to do my windows development on?