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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi all<br>
<br>
I need to have a windows development environment around for the
occasional piece of maintenance work from back when I developed on
windows. My old windows box is limping along and can't keep it up much
longer.<br>
<br>
So I'm interested in setting up a virtual machine to stick XP on. I'm
running Ubuntu on a 2 core laptop with only 1 Gig of ram. I'll probably
need to increase that...<br>
<br>
In the past I used VMWare but was a bit unimpressed that I needed to
semi-reinstall it whenever I updated my kernel. Is there anything out
there that is<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Reasonably easy to
install </font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Just works out of the
box, more or less</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Free. OSS a bonus<br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Can use an external usb
hard disk for the virtual drive to live on</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Doesn't sink it's teeth
into my kernel and throw a fit whenever I upgrade it<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Advice, directions?<br>
<br>
Cheers guys<br>
<br>
Rimu<br>
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