OpenEuphoria

Re: Source changes

• Posted by Gary Shingles <eu at 5?1pi.co.nz> Jul 11, 2007
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Jules wrote:
> 
> > > using the wizards, pop in the CD, and 40 minutes later I had a fully
> > > functioning
> > > XP system running. Very impressive. 
> > > 
> > > <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org">http://www.virtualbox.org</a>
> > 
> > Already on my hard drive   I saw your other post and
> > read up on it straight away.  I haven't tried anything yet though.
> > 
> > I predict that if you want to keep an XP setup handy you'll be looking at
> > putting
> > another 512Mb RAM in your laptop :)  I can't stand XP on only 256Mb, even on
> > a 3.0GHz machine.
> > 
> > Gary
> 
> You're right. It's a little jerky with 256Mb, but quite usable. I gig would
> be fine I think. (512Mb each for the host and guest OS).

A colleague recommended <a
href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx">MS
VirtualPC</a>, which I tried and am very impressed with.  I couldn't install
MINIX3 on VirtualBox (it had disk errors) but Virtual PC (2007) handled it
without a problem.  It's free now too.

Gary