[Wylug-discuss] Running Windows with VirtualBox

[Andrew J Cole]

Anne,

>On 13/02/12 16:43, Andrew J Cole wrote:
>> Anne,
>> 
>> On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:53:38 -0000, Anne Wilson 
>> <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> This (virtualisation) should be problem free with both VMware 
>> Player and VB.
>> 
>> The virtual h/w maps between the generic drivers used inside the
>> VM to the drivers on the real os.
>> 
>I did play around with virtualisation some time back, but it didn't
>solve my problems.  The real problem is that this (very expensive)
>software is dongle-protected, and getting linux drivers for such
>dongles is harder than pulling hens' teeth.

Ah.  A quick Google seems to indicate that most dongle problems with VMs
on Linux hosts are protection/ownership problems with the Linux drivers
rather than the port functionality.  VMware Workstation appears more
likely to work (out of the box) than VMware Player.

Andrew