From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22114 invoked by alias); 5 Jul 2009 11:38:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 22105 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Jul 2009 11:38:48 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,J_CHICKENPOX_61,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (HELO mail-ew0-f213.google.com) (209.85.219.213) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:38:41 +0000 Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so3728186ewy.2 for ; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:38:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.69.13 with SMTP id r13mr3437334eba.66.1246793919012; Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:38:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.99? (cpc2-cmbg8-0-0-cust61.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [82.6.108.62]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm11848502eyf.2.2009.07.05.04.38.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:38:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A5093B4.5050001@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:38:00 -0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thread TITTTL'd Subject: Re: popup consoles on Windows 7 References: <416096c60906270139y33e2888cq148430eebb744b71@mail.gmail.com> <20090628103010.GT30864@calimero.vinschen.de> <20090702174425.GC9839@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20090703104423.GA18746@calimero.vinschen.de> <20090703150212.GA26858@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20090704161431.GB11034@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20090705001152.GA2510@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20090705005134.GA19625@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20090705005134.GA19625@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-q3/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor wrote: > I really can't > believe that they would release Windows 7 in such a broken state > though. 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