[time-nuts] Looking for Wavecrest Visi

Mike Suhar msuhar at woh.rr.com
Thu Apr 12 20:08:00 EDT 2007


I have not been following this thread but I noticed some discussion of dual
boot.  Virtualization options now exist that will allow a host system, be it
Linux or Windows, to run other operating system as images simultaneously.
You are limited mostly by memory on the host system so this would not be an
option for older motherboards with low memory and a slow CPU but keep it in
mind if you have a newer and faster system.  VMware has one of the best and
the server product is free.  Microsoft has just released Virtual PC 2007 and
I think it is free as is Microsoft virtual server R2.  Of course you still
need to have a license for each operating system you are running as a
virtual image.  

There may be hardware considerations/limitations if you need to interface
with the outside world on USB or serial from the virtual image. Network
connectivity is normally not an issue.  

The Microsoft versions don't particularly care for Linux (imagine that) so
the VMware product would be the better choice and the performance is better.

See the link for VMware server product:
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/server_datasheet.pdf



-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of SAIDJACK at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 6:56 PM
To: time-nuts at febo.com
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Looking for Wavecrest Visi

 
In a message dated 4/12/2007 15:32:53 Pacific Daylight Time,  
jgray at zianet.com writes:

Another  way to dual boot that would be a lot easier than trying to graft 
Win98  onto a WinXP drive is to just use another drive for Win98. Even a 1GB

drive would do. Most modern motherboards allow you to select which drive  to

boot from. If you do this, I would temporarily disconnect the WinXP  drive 
while installing Win98, just to be safe.


Hi,
 
I will try that. The motherboard is somewhat old since I have an ISA  GPIB 
card, so not sure if it does dual boot. It does host XP though.
 
thanks again,
Said



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