Re: Virtual machine

[judd@wadsworth.org]

Hi,

     Thanks for the suggestions, everyone.  I decided to try virtualbox.
The installation was straightforward using aptitude, and I can run WinXP
and the application (Mapinfo 8.0) with good performance.

One caveat - during the WinXP installation, my whole system crashed just
after formatting the disk image, at least I could not get the xserver to
respond, switch to a different virtual terminal, or telnet in from
another box. I was doing some web browsing and had some other linux
applications running at the time.  After rebooting, I restarted the vm
and the WinXP installation finished just fine with no more problems.        

-Chris

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|   Christopher Judd, Ph. D.                                           |
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