long week at work... I have a lot of things to do, and only this week to finish as much of them as possible. I'm going on vacation next week (snowboarding... yay!), so I have to close all loose ends here.
anyhow, I installed Windows 7 Beta last night on a virtual machine (using VirtualBox). Looks nice, quick responses, handles nicely, less UAC interruptions than Vista.
It might be that my machine is powerful enough, but it also might be that it is actually better... I'll probably be installing it on my brother's laptop, instead of Vista. We'll see.
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Monday, February 16, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Windows XP Virtualization
So I have this partition with Windows XP installed on it, which I mainly use to sync and backup my iPhone (yeah yeah... closed, proprietary... but it's still a pretty gadget!), and since it's been going BSOD on me right on boot-up (i.e. I can't even log in!), I've decided that it might be a good idea to try and run it in a more controlled environment.
In the Ubuntu forums, I found this thread a while back, and decided to try it. Now, I have a SATA II drive, and the tutorial said the it might not work woth SATA drives, but I thought what the heck... it's not working anyhow, worst case scenario - it won't work!
The tutorial is for VirtualBox version 1.6, which is pretty old - the current version at the date of writing is 2.1.2, so I downloaded that version. And what do you know! it has support for SATA :)
Most of it went pretty well, except for the part where I had to change the drivers for the disk controller... since I couldn't boot into Windows, so I just skipped that part, and hoped for the best.
Almost everything works fine:
Also, for some reason, Windows seems to think it has USB 1 ports only! when in fact, I don't have any USB 1 ports on my system... only USB2. I'll have to check up on that. Maybe VirtualBox doesn't support it, or I'm doing something wrong.
But for now, I have a working Windows XP installation running in a virtual machine, and I still cannot sync/backup my iPhone (I hope nothing bad happens to my phone while I figure things out)
[edit: forgot the links to VirtualBox]
In the Ubuntu forums, I found this thread a while back, and decided to try it. Now, I have a SATA II drive, and the tutorial said the it might not work woth SATA drives, but I thought what the heck... it's not working anyhow, worst case scenario - it won't work!
The tutorial is for VirtualBox version 1.6, which is pretty old - the current version at the date of writing is 2.1.2, so I downloaded that version. And what do you know! it has support for SATA :)
Most of it went pretty well, except for the part where I had to change the drivers for the disk controller... since I couldn't boot into Windows, so I just skipped that part, and hoped for the best.
Almost everything works fine:
- It boots
- I can log in
- Sound
- Internet access
- VirtualBox extensions work (I'm not going to boot directly into it...)
- USB*
Also, for some reason, Windows seems to think it has USB 1 ports only! when in fact, I don't have any USB 1 ports on my system... only USB2. I'll have to check up on that. Maybe VirtualBox doesn't support it, or I'm doing something wrong.
But for now, I have a working Windows XP installation running in a virtual machine, and I still cannot sync/backup my iPhone (I hope nothing bad happens to my phone while I figure things out)
[edit: forgot the links to VirtualBox]
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