-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/2014 03:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:20 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. > > Virtualbox will work, but if you want to stick to stock packages > and aren't concerned about running your images on other types of > hosts, try KVM first. > > Yum groupinstall Virtualization "Virtualization Client" > "Virtualization Platform" "Virtualization Tools" might be overkill > but should have everything you need. And then you'll find the GUI > under Applications ->System Tools -> Virtual Machine Manager. > > If you want to give the guest VM bridged access to your NIC, you > also need the bridge-utils package and have to move your host > network setup to the bridge device. > Just one small point to make here. KVM will not work on a 32 bit installation. That's not all that important these days as most all installations are 64 bit. - -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ **** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTBsRYAAoJEOKvcl2cb48HH1YH/i/dWrar4SpwDsElePbP2nUS ybOr65xnjrT2hgM2iRm/+QXvbRvnyke49K0UiLwpsmY/w/w9Q1VUB0vHxoEttfRf O6m5y+zFqscTNksgv8C4nMAznCTlaB/T6zNYf3kMEyq40UDbH48lUafKynYlH6mJ 9we2xchIihhqKYeQM0HFzMLUBp8ZI6JcSh5IQT+QC4RuSH+ATsUzhYZ50UjRfH/D /fgFX75xGWYQ5ffpAigGLsapxGfeuweQo5i+E4osaO7Rl6D/gmhsPH4qh6v9elOx Z2ZRx4afLUGeJoDV7qgnTdrORLXOENn+eIE4pmORwk7HR3ZdnCJq6TbJ98Hk7FM= =0dFg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----