Blogging from inside a virtual XP machine. w00t.
As threatened in my previous post, I've now got a virtual Windows XP machine for my Eee. I've created a virtual disk image on the SDHC card I was trying to install XP onto natively, and it runs from within innotek's (now Sun's) utterly excellent VirtualBox.
Because I've got two big fat monitors on my work PC, I actually set up the disk image on that rather than squint at the little Eee screen. XP installed in a virtual machine on XP - bananas. Anyway, the upside of this is that I can now use Windows Live Writer on the Eee, and I am now happy. If only there was something comparable that Ubuntu could run without me having to dedicate a chunk of SDHC space and system resources to emulation of a whole 'nother OS... hey ho.
UPDATE! This is how it looks when I use it. I'm running it like this right now, and it's bloody impressive...
As you can see, the Windows window forms an integral part of the Linux desktop. It's good!
(Casual readers - I make no apologies to the geeky nature of this post. I'm too chuffed that it all works after the problems before!)
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I run xp on xp all day
I have to test in multiple versions of ie, so I have two virtual machines on my xp machine, both running xp. It's not that bananas.
Well...
... I'm used to the notion of running multiple Linux kernels on Linux for virtual hosting purposes, but for some reason XP on XP feels a bit weird.
Preconceptions of rubbishness I think!