That's what I do... it is the best of both worlds. Seamless mode is pretty cool though I usually have it full screen on my second screen. I converted a KVM (proxmox) to run in virtualbox recently because I wanted USB support. Anyway... I second the Virtualbox recommendation. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > Run XP in VirtualBox on Linux. > > On 11 Oct 2012 01:27, "Derek Trotter" wrote: >> >> I'll look into clonezilla and partimage later today. Yesterday I was >> using the kde partition manager to resize the ntfs partition my xp install >> lived on. Just my luck my linux install crashed. It's kubuntu 12.04.1 for >> amd64. Naturally when I got the system restarted, the ntfs partition was >> gone. Thankfully testdisk did recover it, but it still won't boot. Right >> now I'm moving everything I want to keep off that ntfs partition. >> >> After that's finished I'll nuke that partition, the only one on that hard >> drive. In the next day or two when I get round to it I'll reinstall xp on a >> smaller partition that will be just for xp and any programs I run on it. A >> second partition on that drive will be for anything I want programs running >> on xp to have access to. >> >> Now I have to decide whether to make that other partition ntfs or ext4 and >> install a driver on xp that will allow it to see the ext4 partition. Which >> would be the better option? >> >> thanks >> >> On 10/10/2012 03:14 PM, Stephen wrote: >> >> Partimage will do this for you. you can also look up clonezilla as it >> is a bootable iso built around this process and some nice scripts to >> make it easy to do. >> >> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Derek Trotter >> wrote: >> >> I'm looking for something on linux that would allow me to create image >> files >> to back up partitions. I guess something along the lines of Norton Ghost. >> I'm looking for something that's easy to use. Does anyone have any ideas? >> >> Thanks >> Derek >> >> -- >> "One mistake up here and it’s half a day out with the undertaker!" >> - Fred Dibnah >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss