Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2008-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 18:38 +, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote: > > > I doubt that would work. The virtual machine > > > identifies itself as > > > different "hardware" from the host, so the MS > > > profit-protection would > > > kick in, claiming you were trying t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2008-01-15 Thread Mick
On Sunday 23 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote: > > I doubt that would work. The virtual machine > > identifies itself as > > different "hardware" from the host, so the MS > > profit-protection would > > kick in, claiming you were trying to run the same > > copy of the OS on two > > different compu

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-23 Thread maxim wexler
> I doubt that would work. The virtual machine > identifies itself as > different "hardware" from the host, so the MS > profit-protection would > kick in, claiming you were trying to run the same > copy of the OS on two > different computers. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick Mebbe I'm confusing wine

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:13:35 +0100, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > You are right that XP should work - or you can install it on a virtual > machine. I am not sure what advantages you get from running vmware from > a partition (unless of course you also want to dual boot). I doubt that would work. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-22 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Sunday 23 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote: > vmware hasn't even been merged yet. _Booting_ both > OSes is OK. XP fails; gentoo does not. If I'm not > mistaken XP has to at least work before vmware will. (...) > I'm guessing it's my video card, a Radeon 9250 You are right that XP should work -

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-22 Thread maxim wexler
> > Be interested to hear from anyone else this has > ever > > happened to. > > > > Maxim > > Do you mean the host PC shutsdown? And by sda1, do > you mean you're installing > to a NTFS partition and not to a virtual hard disk? > Do I understand right > that the installation of XP went OK but bo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-21 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Saturday 22 December 2007, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Trying to set up vmware, unfortunately the PC dies > suddenly after booting WinXP. XP boots OK but anywhere > between a couple of seconds to about 5 mins afterwards > without any warning the PC simply shuts itself off. > And when it

[gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2007-12-21 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Trying to set up vmware, unfortunately the PC dies suddenly after booting WinXP. XP boots OK but anywhere between a couple of seconds to about 5 mins afterwards without any warning the PC simply shuts itself off. And when it reboots it doesn't complain about a sudden shutdown, just churn