<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Eddie Armstrong wrote: <blockquote cite="mid4663EE84.9000101@ntlworld.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">John What qualifies for 'geriatric' these days (worried :-) ) </pre> </blockquote> More years than you can imagine  :'( <blockquote cite="mid4663EE84.9000101@ntlworld.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">re: Virtual Machines If you've got a *full* version of XP on CD (doesn't work with 'upgrades') you can install, say VMWare, on Linux, then 'install' XP into that so for most purposes you will have XP under Linux. However with OEM versions (the one that came with your PC) and most versions of Vista Microsoft prohibits this in their ever-changing EULAs (I hope somebody clarifies this as I may be out of date on this) </pre> </blockquote> More long words of the young... yes I have a kosher copy of  XP but how do I activate the Qemu beast so I can stuff the bloated MS software into the virtual abbess <blockquote cite="mid4663EE84.9000101@ntlworld.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> Wikipedia on Virtual Machines <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine"><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine></a> Wikipedia on VMWare <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vmware"><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vmware></a> Hope this helps For Alan et al: Can anyone clarify how the new KVM kernels with 'virtualisation' built in fit into this scenario? Eddie </pre> </blockquote> Grandad </body> </html>