Installing Ubuntu on a Toshiba laptop with Windows 8

[Jim Byrnes]

On 10/07/2013 07:39 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 8 October 2013 01:17, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>> She as adapted to Ubuntu quite well but still needs to use windows
>> sometimes, which means she must use a very old laptop with xp on it.  If I
>> had dual booted it would have saved her that trouble.
>
> Just run Windows XP in VirtualBox under Ubuntu. Works fine.

Yes it does and I feel dumb not to have considered it as I have 2 Vboxes 
with XP and one OS/2 on my desktop machine.  I guess always consider it 
under powered when compared to my desktop, but it is dual core AMD with 
4 GiB's of ram as I recall so it should do fine.

> "Windows XP Mode" is a free VM from MS. It's intended for only Windows
> 7 Pro users but it is freely downloadable and works fine on all
> versions of Windows, Mac OS X and Linux under VirtualBox.
>
> http://lifehacker.com/5965889/how-to-run-windows-xp-for-free-in-windows-8


Regards,  Jim