From: "Robert Comer" 

> I think the blog author got into trouble when he copied his XP virtual
> application from an AMD laptop to a Pentium laptop. That's when he got bit
> by the processor ID change and subsequent XP activation

Most likely.

> Others - the 'community' virtual appliances -  have problems - KDE on SUSE
> ( no sound ) and ReactOS 0.29 ( really bad alpha version of a windows
> one  ), Syllable ( no network,  0.6 release that needs work  )

Sound is one of the hardest things to configure on Linux. :( (right next to
video if you have anything fancy)

ReactOS is pretty useless from what I've seen of it.  Never heard of Syllable.

I've heard good things about Ubuntu lately...

--
Bob Comer


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
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>>> According to VMWare group product manager Srinivas Krishnamurtiff, there
>>> are some things that are not virtualizable.  One of them is the host
>>> system's process.  Said Krishnamurtiff "there's a
processor ID that's
>>> not virtualizable."
>>
>> That's a possibility, even with Virtual PC, neither one emulate the
>> processor, that would be a big speed hit.  fwiw, in all my travels with
>> VPC and VMWare, I never had to reactivate because of changing hosts. (not
>> yet anyway!)  The processor ID isn't the only thing that's not
>> virtualizable.
>>
>> Maybe I haven't had a problem with it because I don't have one of the
>> newer processors...
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer
>>
>>
>>
>
> I think the blog author got into trouble when he copied his XP virtual
> application from an AMD laptop to a Pentium laptop. That's when he got bit
> by the processor ID change and subsequent XP activation
>
> I loaded the VMware Player and several of the canned Platform Vendors
> Virtual Applications are ok - Ubuntu Linux ( was even able to do Updates
> once I figured out the password was Ubuntu )  and The Browser (Firefox )
> Appliance. They all seem to work well with 256 mb of  allocated memory
>
> Others - the 'community' virtual appliances -  have problems - KDE on SUSE
> ( no sound ) and ReactOS 0.29 ( really bad alpha version of a windows
> one  ), Syllable ( no network,  0.6 release that needs work  )
>
>
>
>

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