Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare & Virtual machines (Was 'diabetes')

2007-06-04 Thread John Taylor
Eddie Armstrong wrote: John Taylor wrote: More long words of the young... yes I have a kosher copy of XP but how do I activate the Qemu beast so I can stuff the bloated MS software into the virtual abbess John - Thanks for your kind words but I wont see fifty again :-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare & Virtual machines (Was 'diabetes')

2007-06-04 Thread Alan Pope
Hi John, On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:33:13PM +0100, John Taylor wrote: > More long words of the young... yes I have a kosher copy of  XP but how > do I activate the Qemu beast so I can stuff the bloated MS software > into the virtual abbess https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare & Virtual machines (Was 'diabetes')

2007-06-04 Thread Eddie Armstrong
John Taylor wrote: > > More long words of the young... yes I have a kosher copy of XP but > how do I activate the Qemu beast so I can stuff the bloated MS > software into the virtual abbess John - Thanks for your kind words but I wont see fifty again :-( As for QEMU I can't comment on the rest

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare & Virtual machines (Was 'diabetes')

2007-06-04 Thread John Taylor
Eddie Armstrong wrote: John What qualifies for 'geriatric' these days (worried :-) ) More years than you can imagine  :'( re: Virtual Machines If you've got a *full* version of XP on CD (doesn't work with 'upgrades') you can install, say VMWare, on Linux, then 'install' XP into t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare & Virtual machines (Was 'diabetes')

2007-06-04 Thread Alan Pope
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:30:03PM +0100, Eddie Armstrong wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: > > :( HTML formatted mail :( > Sorry, hope it's fixed now Hurrah! Many thanks. > > Virtualisation isn't the same as WINE. etc > Thanks for comprehensive and quick reply (and I understood it :-) ) > Double-wha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare & Virtual machines (Was 'diabetes')

2007-06-04 Thread Eddie Armstrong
Alan Pope wrote: > :( HTML formatted mail :( Sorry, hope it's fixed now > Virtualisation isn't the same as WINE. etc Thanks for comprehensive and quick reply (and I understood it :-) ) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKT

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare & Virtual machines (Was 'diabetes')

2007-06-04 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 04 June 2007 12:18:55 Alan Pope wrote: > Hi Eddie, > > :( HTML formatted mail :( I was about to say the same thing :-) Apart from the many other valid reasons why HTML email is a "bad idea" (see http://www.tcrlist.com/Configuring_Plain_Text.htm as a start...), I often read email on my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare & Virtual machines (Was 'diabetes')

2007-06-04 Thread Alan Pope
Hi John, On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:19:29PM +0100, John Taylor wrote: > I have qemu(ed) I sent you a screen dump but duty mod person will say > its to big (twice the allowable bites) > Without that screenshot I really don't know what the context of the next question is :) Could you upload the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare & Virtual machines (Was 'diabetes')

2007-06-04 Thread John Taylor
Alan Pope wrote: Hi Eddie, On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:50:44AM +0100, Eddie Armstrong wrote: For Alan et al: Can anyone clarify how the new KVM kernels with 'virtualisation' built in fit into this scenario? KVM is a kernel based "accelerator" for virtual machine technologies. It can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare & Virtual machines (Was 'diabetes')

2007-06-04 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Eddie, :( HTML formatted mail :( On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:07:33PM +0100, Eddie Armstrong wrote: > > > > > > > > Alan Pope wrote: > > KVM is only any use on newish CPUs that have the VT > instructions, for > non-VT-capable CPUs I use the KQEMU module with QEMU. > > > RE VM

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare & Virtual machines (Was 'diabetes')

2007-06-04 Thread Eddie Armstrong
Alan Pope wrote: KVM is only any use on newish CPUs that have the VT instructions, for non-VT-capable CPUs I use the KQEMU module with QEMU. RE VMs and MS Windows : Would virtualisation replace Wine?     - or are there cases where Wine is the preferred choice? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VMWare & Virtual machines (Was 'diabetes')

2007-06-04 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Eddie, On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:50:44AM +0100, Eddie Armstrong wrote: > For Alan et al: Can anyone clarify how the new KVM kernels with > 'virtualisation' built in fit into this scenario? KVM is a kernel based "accelerator" for virtual machine technologies. It can be used by (for example)

[ubuntu-uk] VMWare & Virtual machines (Was 'diabetes')

2007-06-04 Thread Eddie Armstrong
John What qualifies for 'geriatric' these days (worried :-) ) re: Virtual Machines If you've got a *full* version of XP on CD (doesn't work with 'upgrades') you can install, say VMWare, on Linux, then 'install' XP into that so for most purposes you will have XP under Linux. However with OEM ver