Virtualization for Xp on suse 10.2?

Hi everyone.I currently have a dual boot pc (Win xp and Suse 10.2), I am thinking about using virtualization instead of ntfs partition, to see how it would work out. But the problem is that I don’t know what software to search for exactly. What I would like is: some free virtualization software that runs on suse 10.2 in which I could install win xp and it’s programs. I don’t need any server, I would just like to be able to run customized xp via some free virtualization to get rid of ntfs partition. Any help much appreciated.

Try virtualbox in yast get
virtualbox-ose
virtualbox-ose-guest-tool
xorg-x11-driver-virtualbox-ose
and
virtualbox-ose-kmp-your kernel (probably default)
Read more here

Geoff

Yeah VirtualBox is great ;), but i think it’s only a good choice if you are not using programms that directly working with the hardware (e.g. Music Producing Software: to record music from an external soundcard)

Or am I wrong? :confused:

Thank you guys, VirtualBox really looks great,already tried it :). Just one more question, is VirtualBox really free to use, because I saw VMWare Desktop isn’t free, it offers just a free trial, has VirtualBox same type of licence? Thanks again.

Yes it’s open source like openSUSE. VMware has an open source version vmplayer
And there are apps to download. But VirtualBox is better IMHO as you can configure it which is not possible with vmplayer

Geoff

Thanks again guys :slight_smile:

did you sure vmware player is opensource? AFAIK it free from payment not free as a bear (opensource) open virtual machine tools is opensource…

Open Source Projects - VMware

There are two versions of VirtualBox.
The OSE (Open Source Edition), which is licenced under the GPL and
available in the OSS-Repo as like as in the Community-Repository
(Virtualization) and the Closed Source Version, you can get from
the homepage.

I would suggest you to install it from the Virtualization-Repo
because the Version from the OSS-Repo is out of date and doesn’t
support 64-Bit guest operating systems. The Closed Source Version
is only intersting to you if you like to use USB-Support.