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From: Will Kemp on 23 Apr 2008 11:05
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:20:43 +0100, Chris wrote:

> I've not used the Linux version of VirtualBox, but on the Mac VB allows
> you to share files between the client and host with the free version.
> Note: you need to install the 'client tools' for this to work, though.

If networking works, surely you can use samba for that, anyway. I use it
for sharing files between my linux system and the xp system i run in
vmware on it.


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From: Nix on 23 Apr 2008 17:39
On 22 Apr 2008, jasee(a)btinternet.com verbalised:
> "Nix" <nix-razor-pit(a)esperi.org.uk> wrote in message
> news:87ve29zm1h.fsf(a)hades.wkstn.nix...
>> Xen is not a cut down version of Linux, sorry. It's free software,
>> interoperates with Linux, and shares some code with the xen arch in the
>> Linux kernel, but the hypervisor isn't Linux of any flavour.
>
> Well I'm using Oracles vm which is (I believe) Xen based. It installs like
> Linux and it looks (horribly to me) like Linux seems to accept the linux
> commands and even uses lilo.

Xen can be booted by LILO, yes. However, Linux runs *under* Xen: the Xen
hypervisor itself is not Linux in any way shape or form. (The thing
accepting Linux commands is a Linux instance running under the Xen
hypervisor.)
From: Nix on 23 Apr 2008 17:41
On 23 Apr 2008, Chris spake thusly:
> XP needs 512MB to run well

I have to use XP at work and, well, that's not so. Not if you want to
run more than, say, three things at once, even if some of them aren't
doing anything at all: *especially* not if you run a virus scanner as
well (these are *really* hungry buggers these days: e.g. Sophos's eats
>150Mb on its own, and chews far more CPU time than anything else bar
bulk compilations.)

It's tolerable with 1Gb.

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From: jasee on 24 Apr 2008 03:34

"Nix" <nix-razor-pit(a)esperi.org.uk> wrote in message
news:878wz4gsib.fsf(a)hades.wkstn.nix...
> On 22 Apr 2008, jasee(a)btinternet.com verbalised:
>> "Nix" <nix-razor-pit(a)esperi.org.uk> wrote in message
>> news:87ve29zm1h.fsf(a)hades.wkstn.nix...
>>> Xen is not a cut down version of Linux, sorry. It's free software,
>>> interoperates with Linux, and shares some code with the xen arch in the
>>> Linux kernel, but the hypervisor isn't Linux of any flavour.
>>
>> Well I'm using Oracles vm which is (I believe) Xen based. It installs
>> like
>> Linux and it looks (horribly to me) like Linux seems to accept the linux
>> commands and even uses lilo.
>
> Xen can be booted by LILO, yes. However, Linux runs *under* Xen: the Xen
> hypervisor itself is not Linux in any way shape or form. (The thing
> accepting Linux commands is a Linux instance running under the Xen
> hypervisor.)

I didn't mention the hypervisor.

AFAIK, though I'm not familiar with Xen itself, you can't install these
types without installing what I call a special cut down version of Linux
which it comes with. It'd be futile to do so anyway as that's what should
make these types run faster and more efficiently than say, running windows
on vmworkstation for Linux, which I also use, in which runs windows
noticeable slower, in particular regarding disk access. .


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