[olug] Best Way to upgrade computer

[Kevin]

Don't know if it needs saying, but Microsoft Virtual PC won't let you
boot from an extra physical drive; it has to be a virtual drive.

Not that it's really surprising. They're trying to keep you in MS
world any way they can.

On 11/5/07, Russell T. Monaghan <russellmonaghan at cox.net> wrote:
>   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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