VirtualBox

[Dick Dowdell]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5 August 2014 15:07, Norman Silverstone <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> > Thanks Liam and compdoc, I thought that I had read somewhere that I
> would be
> > unable to simply put my Widows 7 install disc into the drive and, hey
> > presto, the partition would be reformatted and Windows 7 installed and
> ready
> > for use. Have I got it wrong?
>
>
> It's not magical or automatic. You have to back up anything you want
> to keep, ensure you have a valid licence key and copies of any
> programs you wish to reinstall, boot your PC from the media, run the
> installation, select your existing Windows partition, format it,
> install to that partition, then reinstall the Ubuntu bootloader
> afterwards...
>
> But it's perfectly doable. If you installed Ubuntu you should be able
> to install Windows.
>
>
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Sorry, Liam.  Bottom posting ceased to be the email norm a long time ago.

With current hardware, virtualization has become commonplace in commercial
computing.  As a software developer (40+ years), I need to be able to run
clients and servers of multiple OSs to develop and test my work.  I can not
afford to reboot to switch OSs and I often need multiple VMs running at the
same time.  VirtualBox is easy.  I currently have 1 Windows and 4 Linux VMs
 running on a Ubuntu host i5 machine with 8 GB RAM and 2 TB of disk.  I can
add and remove guest VMs quickly and easily.  I can also save unused VMs
and restore them as needed.
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