Don’t ask why, it just seemed like a good idea at the time. At that time, it seemed like a good idea to use a fixed 10GB virtual disk drive for the XP C: drive in VirtualBox when I was building it. Here’s the background: I created the VirtualBox VM that I am currently using about 3 years ago. Today I ran up against one of those apparently persistent, long-lived bugs in VirtualBox that threatens to derail my productivity for at least a few more hours. I run the latest patched version of Windows XP in it it’s got 2-D hardware acceleration, sound, virtual networking etc., so you basically can’t tell that you’re on a virtual machine when you’re using it. Generally, I’ve been quite happy with VirtualBox. It’s also not always too swift with track changes, and I cannot count the hours I have wasted trying to make an OO Presentation look like anything other than the dog’s dinner when viewed in MS Power Point.)īack to the issue: for my virtual machine, I used to use VMWare, but I switched over to Sun (now Oracle) VirtualBox several years ago. (As an aside, I also use Open Office, have done so for years, but OO is not 100% compatible with MS Word. And to ensure that I can fill out my time sheet, and track all those changes in MS Word documents, I run Windows in a virtual machine. So, to fill out my time sheet in order to get paid, or to follow all the Track Changes in a Microsoft 2007 proposal document, I have to run Windows, because the company I work for uses 100% Windows software to run their business. I use it every day, and have done so for many years. Ok, I recognize and greatly appreciate the tremendous contributions of open source software.
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