[Wylug-discuss] Running Windows with VirtualBox

[Gary Stainburn]

On Friday 03 February 2012 15:45:40 John wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 02:53:32PM +0000, Smylers wrote:
> > In that case I don't think I'll bother. I've managed without running
> > Windows for a decade now, with only minor inconvenience, so I'm sure I
> > can cope with continuing like that.
>
> If you might want to run it only very occasionally, maybe repartition
> and then multi-boot, with Linux as the default OS.
>
> To do that, shrink the Win7 partition.  Not too painful.  Then install
> Linux.  It does mean a big chunk of hard drive is doing nothing almost
> forever but maybe that's OK.
>
> No licence issues with that, AFAIK, and no fighting drivers etc.

This is the option I've opted for on the current and last few options.. I use 
Fedora and I'm sure that it even has the option 'Shrink current system'

Possibly your dist of choice has something similar

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Gary Stainburn
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