The best of all three worlds

Monday, July 28, 2003

Windows XP and Knoppix running in virtual machines in Mac OS X:

Virtual PC's integration between Windows XP and Mac OS X is amazing. I can browse my Mac folders from within Windows, can drag and drop files between Mac and Windows desktops, can share the clipboard, can switch to full screen mode, can change resolutions simply by resizing the window in OSX, and can synchronise the time in the virtual machine with the host.

Virtual PC also provides DHCP and NAT services so the OS in the virtual machine can connect to the Net and use all LAN services.

Now to get printing to also work seamlessly...

fus — Jul 28, 2003 2:53:30 PM — # ↩

awesome!!!
bluesmoon — Jul 28, 2003 5:08:07 PM — # ↩

needs more BeOS ;)
- Kiran Jonnalagadda — Jul 28, 2003 6:03:32 PM — # ↩
  
  I'm short on disk space. Can't afford to have too many operating systems.
  
  I have Windows for some research into how it handles folder views. I'll be installing Red Hat 9 so I tinker with Mono and Dashboard. The rest, I'll not bother with unless a suitable purpose comes up.
  - jagaroth — Oct 1, 2003 11:54:20 PM — # ↩
    
    Just stumbled across your lj while doing a google search for something unrelated and i'm now wondering if you managed to get red hat to work in a Virtual PC. I don't know anyone who has yet.
    - Kiran Jonnalagadda — Oct 2, 2003 1:19:55 AM — # ↩
      
      I didn't either. The installer took some 2 hours, and then froze. I've only got Knoppix working so far.
      - jagaroth — Oct 2, 2003 2:52:36 AM — # ↩
        
        I got Knoppix installed on a vpc on my desktop pc. It works rather well. I tend to use it test test things out before I screw up the knoppix hd install on my laptop.

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