From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
To: Thread TITTTL'd <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: popup consoles on Windows 7
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A5093B4.5050001@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090705005134.GA19625@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> <broken record>I really can't
> believe that they would release Windows 7 in such a broken state
> though.</broken record>
What, you mean "Vista"?
> I've been running a copy of Windows 7 in Sun's virtualbox. It really is
> cool. I have a vmware license but, lately, I've been using virtualbox
> exclusively.
>
> I know this is slightly off-topic but I can recommend this product for
> virtually hosting Windows/Cygwin. Personally, I really only want XP on
> my hardware. Everything else I run is in VirtualBox. In fact, last
> week, I copied my old NT4 partition from hardware to a virtualbox disk
> and it booted up with minimal fuss.
I used it a lot in my last job and can second that recommendation, but vbox
has one limitation for me: it can't run under w2k (in the most recent few
versions).
cheers,
DaveK
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