Virtualbox works very well for such situations as you describe. I've done the same thing using it. On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com>wrote: > I may have a need to run some version of Windows (XP?) on my desktop. > > As this will likely be a short-term thing, and since I have never used > Windows, I would like to do this in the most painless way possible. A > method that requires me to make the least changes to my Centos computer > would be nice, since I'll probably want to back it out again later. > > I have never used any of the current virtualization technologies, so it's > all new to me. > > My objective is to have Window run in a window on my desktop. I don't > want to dual-boot my computer. > > I was looking at virtualbox. Is this the best approach? I get the > impression that there are special kernel modules that are required for > virtualbox, but if I install dkms then that will be automatically handled > for me whenever there is a kernel upgrade. Install dkms, install the > virtualbox repo, install virtualbox rpms, set up image, done. Is that all > there is to it? Would something other than virtualbox be better? > > Any recommendations or suggestions will be appreciated. > > Thanks! > > -- > MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >