Andre Costa wrote:
Hi,
I have here Fedora 8 and WinXP on the same machine. I use XP mostly
for gaming, but every once in a while I have to edit some Word docs
sent by clients on MS Word. ... As much as I wish, OpenOffice isn't
just there yet, sometimes it messes with the docs, I already tried
this and received complaints about format changes. It sucks, and
eventually there will be 100% compatibility, but there's still some
ground to cover.
According to VMWare Workstation FAQ I could run my installed XP as a
guest system, but I was wondering if there was no free alternative,
since it costs USD 189,00 and I will only need it every once in a
while.
Anyone solved a similar problem? Any advice on what to use and what to
avoid? Any pitfalls?
I've had good success with VirtualBox from http://www.virtualbox.org .
Especially neat is the "seamless mode" where the Windows toolbar appears
at the bottom of your Fedora display. When you run a Windows program it
shows up in a Fedora window.
Audio also works well.
Pitfalls:
During installation it will create a group called vboxusers. You
must add yourself to that group, then logout and log back in; otherwise,
it won't run. After that you won't need to go through that step.
Find /dev/net/tun and chgrp it to vboxusers; otherwise, host mode
networking won't work.
Other than that you should have no problems.
Have fun,
Mike Wright :m)
