[olug] Best Way to upgrade computer

[Russell T. Monaghan]

  Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Virtual Box will do what 
you need. It works for me for vm stuff, and you can just tell it to use 
an entire hard drive when you set up a machine. I couldn't get 
networking to work with it, or stuff like usb keys, but then that was 
the windows version a few releases ago. (don't ask) Anyway, most vm 
software will let you boot from a hard drive that already has an OS 
installed on it.

VirtualBox: www.virtualbox.org


Ridgid wrote:
> well, have you looked into
> QEMU http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu
> Parallels http://www.parallels.com
> VMwar http://www.vmware.com
>
>
>
> On 11/3/07, Joe Gulizia <jrguliz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>> I have a machine with a Gig and a half of RAM...a 3.4
>> GHz processor...and Kubuntu 7.10 disks and the Win XP
>> Home Recovery disks.  I have two hard drives (large
>> enough) plus an external USB drive.
>>
>> I'd like to avoid dual booting and virtually run the
>> Win XP and the apps I need for that (Pinnacle Studio
>> 10 for video editing, Quicktime 6.5 to view live
>> videostreaming of .sdp files, and WebDav write access)
>> along with being able to increase the screen
>> resolution higher than 1024x786 and RDP/VNC into
>> remote Win XP machines graphically to remotely access
>> and edit video files.
>>
>> Can I do this with Win XP on one hard drive and
>> Kubuntu 7.10 on the other drive?  Unfortunately it
>> does need to have Win on it.
>>
>> Having to reboot to do different tasks is a pain in
>> the neck and other places...I'm hopeful that I can do
>> this easily.  I'm trying to turn this whole project
>> around within the next 12-16 hours also.
>>
>> Also I've done some reading but prefer clear step by
>> step instructions.
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Joe
>>
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