going M$ free

[Kevin Fries]

Even better, VBox has a mode called seamless mode.  I need Vision every so
often, so I have XP in a vbox instance.  I have an icon on my desktop that
uses the command line interface to start the Windows instance on demand,
otherwise why waste the resources.  When I first set ut up, Windows came up
in a window, but I auto-hid the launch bar and hit ctrl-L to go into
seamless mode.  Now, when I move my mouse pointer to the bottom of the
screen, the start menu appears, and I can launch any program I installed in
my windows instance.  Freaks out the Windows guys because it makes it look
like your windows program is actually running on Linux... ah geek fun!!

Kevin

On Sep 13, 2010 10:34 AM, "keith smith" <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:


So basically I install my favorite distro of Linux.  Download and install
the compatible version of virtualbox.  Then install XP in the virtualbox.

Would I be able to open an instance of XP in a window?  Like opening
multiple browser tabs?  That way I would be able to go back and forth
between Windows and Linux.


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Keith Smith

--- On *Mon, 9/13/10, Ariel Gold <arielqgold at gmail.com>* wrote:


From: Ariel Gold <arielqgold at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: going M$ free
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Monday, September 13, 2010, 9:25 AM

> > I also run virtualbox for IE testing. I run tinyxp, which runs blazing
fast (not that i've done...
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