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Fail: VirtualBox and Existing WinXP SP3 Partition

Posted by ushimitsudoki on July 8, 2008

My laptop is set up to dual-boot WinXP in those cases where I am out and about and might need to get back into Windows.

I wanted to virtualize the existing WinXP partition, so I didn’t actually have to re-boot to do one thing in Windows. Virtualization has worked very nicely for me on the desktop. Read the rest of this entry »

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VirtualBox

Posted by ushimitsudoki on May 12, 2008

In my continuing quest to both try new things in general, and try new things that will help me be more productive, I recently set up VirtualBox.

Before, I had left WinXP running on my laptop, and I would remote desktop into it to run any Windows-only application I required. (About 3 of these.)

I want to eventally remove any installed Windows altogether, and just bring up a virtualized WinXP when I have to run one of these applications. It’s a minor step in one sense, but I like the idea of removing Windows entirely from any “real” machine I have. Read the rest of this entry »

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