green granite

Has any one got experience using them? I've got fed up having to re-boot to swap between windows and linux so I downloaded microsoft's VM program, the Suse linux disc I have is a 'live cd' one with the option to install only after the program is running. Despite giving the VM 500 megs of ram to play with and the VD up to 50 GBytes I can't get suse to run straight from the cd. It gets as far as checking the cpu speed options (about 1/2 way through) the screen just goes blank and all disc operations cease. Other than downloading the 'non live cd' version, about 5 gigs worth.

Any thoughts? (I specifically want Suse)

green granite

Ok sorted, dumped the miocrosoft VM and installed the Sun "virtual box" and the install went like a dream (Ididn't even need to RTFM). I can now switch between linux and windows without re-booting all the time tis brilliant

StaceyF

How easy is it? I was recently pointed in the direction of Sun's VB.

I've got two pcs (one runs XP and does nothing but monitor my CCTV system 24/7......no Vista drivers for my video capture card hence the reason why I need a separate pc running XP) and this one which runs Vista.

I've been trying to fathom out a way to get 2 operating systems living happily together in the same pc so that I can sell the redundant one.

green granite

I didn't have any problems with setting up virtual box at all it's very intuitive but if you want to run both systems all the time you will need a fair ammount of ram (I've got 4gigs so I gave the VM 1/2 gig and it seems quite happy) If you're going to run xp it might be better to use the microsoft virtual machine as you can tell it which microsoft os you want to install.