On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Johnny Hughesjohnny@centos.org wrote:
Now days, if the machine is fairly decent, I just install windows in a Virtual Machine.
I like Sun's Virtual Box on CentOS to run my Windows Hosts ... others use different things like VMWare.
You can get virtual box here:
The great thing about a VM is that you can use both the Windows machine and the Linux machine at the same time.
The bad thing is that it can be slow if you do not have enough RAM or CPU.
I have a laptop with a Pentium M 2.2 GHz processor and 2 GB RAM and I run a Windows XP VM with 512MB RAM on top if CentOS 5.
That's how I run Windows on everything except my laptop, which only has 512 Meg of RAM. I first used VirtualBox on an openSUSE machine with 768 Megs of RAM and a 1.5 Ghz Pentium 4 CPU. XP worked fine, but I found out I could use a smaller virtual machine (and give it less memory) if I used Windows 2000. And I really don't need XP for the few programs I run in Windows. My CentOS desktop computer is a 2.8 Ghz Pentium 4 with 1 Gig of RAM and Win2K runs great in it. I sure hope Oracle doesn't mess up VirtualBox.