A while ago I wrote that I wanted to run some Windows OSes as virtual
machines under Linux. I wound up selecting Sun's VirtualBox.
Ubuntu knew about the VirtualBox package so installation was trivial.
Installing the guest OSes was also pretty easy. I did learn that if you
made a mistake on the path offered by the installation wizard, you had
to clean up some files by hand, and since I was dealing with MS
activation, I basically had one shot to get it right.
Installing Win7 Ultimate was a cinch.
I had problems installing the purportedly OEM copy of XP Pro I got from
a small vendor on Amazon. MS Windows Genuine Advantage said it was
probably counterfeit. I took a chance that the offer to buy another
"genuine" copy of XP Pro wasn't phishing (why oh why didn't I check for
a secure connection and a certificate. I checked later. The
certificate had expired a year ago.) After a week I got a CD,
presumably from Microsoft. I did a clean install with the new disk
without incident. I just need to delete the potentially bogus XP Pro
guest.
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