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Upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8 in a VMWare Virtual Machine

November 1, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

Though my main home PC runs Linux Mint, I do like to have the facility to use Windows software from time to time and virtualisation has allowed me to continue doing that. For a good while, it was a Windows [...]

Never undercutting the reseller…

October 23, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

Quite possibly, THE big technology news of the week has been the launch of Windows 7. Regular readers may be aware that I have been having a play with the beta and release candidate versions of the thing since the [...]

Booting from external drives

September 16, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

Sticking with older hardware may mean that you miss out on the possibilities offered by later kit and being able to boot from external optical and hard disk drives was something of which I learned only recently. Like many things, [...]

Getting Fedora working in VirtualBox

May 12, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

After a hiatus induced by disk errors seen on start up, I have gone having a go with Fedora again. In the world of real PC’s, its place has been taken by Debian so virtualisation was brought into play for [...]

Some things don’t mix…

May 10, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

Now that the Release Candidate for Windows 7 is out, I have been giving it a whirl in a VirtualBox session and it, like the Beta that I had been trying too, feels a sold enough affair. I went for [...]

/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Protocol error

April 19, 2009 10 Responses Shortlink

These times, my virtualisation needs are being well served by VirtualBox 2.2. It may be the closed source variant but I have no complaints about it. Along with a number Windows VM’s, I also have one running Ubuntu 9.04 and, [...]