Virtualisation and networking

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 10:41 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Monday 14 April 2008, Keith Antoine wrote:
> > irst up I have had a rebuild but this is probably the last and this was
> > brought about by the new Quad cpu's and the fact that they
> > now run virtualisation natively. So I thought that I would install
> > opensuse10.3, also install and run VitualBox, Vmware or Wine.
> > Comments please on these and how they have altered over the past 2 years
> > as Vmware looks complicated as to when I last ijnstalled
> > it. What is Vitual box like and will wine run Photoshop CS3, Lightroom,
> > OnOne 4. Also their associated plugins but if the main program
> > will run I guess the plugins will too. I also have DVB T card Nebulae
> > that I would also like to run.
> 
> After many years (5?) of running VMware (and having paid a lot of money for 
> it) I now run VirtualBox and am quite happy with it.
> 
> The sound is a lot better on VB and I haven't found anything it has a problem 
> with.   I have  PaintShop Pro on it but haven't tried  Photoshop.

My Nokia PC Suite will not run on XP on VBox. It is very odd. The
telephone is available, but the PC Suite can't find it. I can load files
to the memory cards and all, but not run the PC Suite stuff to do
'proper' address book stuff. I know, Linux has tools. But I looked
longingly at the pub across the street when fighting with them...

> 
> Runs quite snappy too.
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