Posts by Alexander

1) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : dual boot Ubuntu/XP (Message 69559) Posted 1 Feb 2011 by Alexander Post: Better late than never... Just ran across your thread - Not sure if its relevant anymore, but someone else may benefit. I mainly run Linux, but there are an extremely rare few apps that won't run under wine, so I have VirtualBox setup where I can run XP without having to reboot. VirtualBox is cross-platform, so you can run it on any host OS (including Intel Macs, although you can't run OSX on non-mac hardware) but I'd recommend running Linux as the host and XP in the virtual session - much more stable. On the other hand, its a lot easier to pack up *nix and restore everything into the virtual client. Currently, my target run time is not set (default). The critical thing is to complete each assigned WU within its deadline, correct? So the only problem would be not switching to the other os within 10 days in order to complete its assigned WUs. Since I tend to run 24/7 and it should be rare to not switch within 10 days, I should be ok. Please correct any misunderstandings I may have.