On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Emmanuel Noobadmin centos.admin@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos|Windows Cross Platform File Managers
On 7/2/11, Keith Roberts keith@karsites.net wrote:
I'm not a lover of M$ stuff, but the application I need to run is Windows only, and doing a fresh install of Vista as I also have the Tech Guys recovery disk seems like the easiest option for me.
I'm probably a bit biased since lately I've been messing around with virtual machines too much. If you installed Vista only for that single app, would it had been easier if you installed Vista as a virtual guest on your system, using a raw partition which you can then access from the host CentOS using the filemanager you're already familar with? Or did the app require too much graphical processing power to be viable in a guest OS?
I did want to try doing that, but AFAIK my processor does not support the required VM instructions.
/proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : AMD Duron(tm) stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1200.003 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic : mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr : sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up : nonstop_tsc ts bogomips : 2400.00
Is that correct?
The other thing is, I read that to install a Windows OS in a VM you will need the proper full OS installation disk, and I only have the original 'Tech Guys' Advent laptop recovery disk, so I have just done a fresh install onto the laptop. Apparently the Windows recovery disk checks for some sort of ID string somewhere in the lappy's BIOS, and it does not even prompt for the M$ licence key serial number.
Kind Regards,
Keith
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