That's what I do... it is the best of both worlds. Seamless mode is
pretty cool though I usually have it full screen on my second screen.
I converted a KVM (proxmox) to run in virtualbox recently because I
wanted USB support. Anyway... I second the Virtualbox recommendation.
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Lisa Kachold <
lisakachold@obnosis.com> wrote:
> Run XP in VirtualBox on Linux.
>
> On 11 Oct 2012 01:27, "Derek Trotter" <expat.arizonan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'll look into clonezilla and partimage later today. Yesterday I was
>> using the kde partition manager to resize the ntfs partition my xp install
>> lived on. Just my luck my linux install crashed. It's kubuntu 12.04.1 for
>> amd64. Naturally when I got the system restarted, the ntfs partition was
>> gone. Thankfully testdisk did recover it, but it still won't boot. Right
>> now I'm moving everything I want to keep off that ntfs partition.
>>
>> After that's finished I'll nuke that partition, the only one on that hard
>> drive. In the next day or two when I get round to it I'll reinstall xp on a
>> smaller partition that will be just for xp and any programs I run on it. A
>> second partition on that drive will be for anything I want programs running
>> on xp to have access to.
>>
>> Now I have to decide whether to make that other partition ntfs or ext4 and
>> install a driver on xp that will allow it to see the ext4 partition. Which
>> would be the better option?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> On 10/10/2012 03:14 PM, Stephen wrote:
>>
>> Partimage will do this for you. you can also look up clonezilla as it
>> is a bootable iso built around this process and some nice scripts to
>> make it easy to do.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I'm looking for something on linux that would allow me to create image
>> files
>> to back up partitions. I guess something along the lines of Norton Ghost.
>> I'm looking for something that's easy to use. Does anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Derek
>>
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>> - Fred Dibnah
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