On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Emmanuel Noobadmin <centos.admin at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos|Windows Cross Platform File Managers > > On 7/2/11, Keith Roberts <keith at 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------