[Wylug-discuss] Running Windows with VirtualBox

[Anne Wilson]

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On 03/02/12 13:42, Smylers wrote:
> I'm guessing that Windows installation discs won't be supplied (not
> least of which cos the laptop doesn't have a CD/DVD drive),

FWIW I bought a neat, lightweight DVD player, LiteON, from CCL for
around £20, for use with my netbook.

I've been looking at this problem for a long time.  I absolutely need
Windows, for my embroidery design software.  I hate having to shut
down Linux to work on the designs, so I'm reduced to using the netbook
(also dual-boot) with an external monitor.  Not really good.

Like Smylers, I came from the standpoint that I would be running a
genuine system on the hardware that it's licensed for - and it was
only when I started to dig that I realised how hard if not impossible
it was going to be.  I do have an XP DVD + license for a machine that
is no longer used, so maybe I'll try to virtualise that.  As far as
I'm concerned, I've paid for one license to run the OS on one machine
and that's all I'll be doing.  Drivers may turn out to be a problem,
with hardware so much newer than the system.

BTW, the size of a Windows partition was mentioned - be aware that it
needs a lot more space than Linux does.  20GB is the minimum, IMO.
Very likely it won't let you shrink your partition to less than around
half the disk anyway, as it puts some files, immoveable, right in the
middle, but if, like me, you prefer to use separate C:\ and D:\ for
data anyway you should have plenty of space.

Anne
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