From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NZxFO-0003Vr-D7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:03:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5406E0B05 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:03:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f47.google.com (mail-pw0-f47.google.com [209.85.160.47]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 783C2E0871 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:23:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj10 with SMTP id 10so3694086pwj.26 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:23:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=IMuJtucW4A01EYIEIyGfffZymE4om4cJiRy7G/sXwis=; b=mMmMDnfMG9QkjSePUVRWXlApncE5GMUcVhKhx4rQc6LWqcjtBKw27iRVcZgAxT5SWM vDZGvicSewdJcPcT4xgt3l953liFLe96kVm5J7mrm+qclEVlRSu5U65l7/wcCvxRB8zn nCIvsPqg4ne9uu8jAGY4Fi7wr7sQOGJi5Y3kU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=rjTrctpgIkW3wugg6yMD756NIZ5db+qR20EfVbihUWZBgkUX60tFeCSikq2KvRHF9s Wblr9PrxGbFD1iWijnDjPwRJTjCMnnO6WxyCTaLxCwC6I83IOoHbOK41rQ5ftcT9Iqa9 NOEAn5o6e7zOPYPyHRFnF7YCIAEBiMwsQRMd4= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.151.14 with SMTP id y14mr2799403wfd.34.1264551800978; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:23:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b1001261611q5dc0f426ued2c1ab7e75e897b@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b1001261155p400fd174nc90742c8fe2e5da3@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b1001261611q5dc0f426ued2c1ab7e75e897b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:23:20 -0800 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b1001261623k2291db8ct4cde3249646f000b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: d4fb7c33-9691-4728-a147-b98e1a5bb883 X-Archives-Hash: ebf498dec829062a37cc860b17711dbd On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Windows splash screen up > > OK - it says 39 minutes until installation will be done but most > likely it will go much faster. > > Thanks! If the performance is good this will be nice. > > Back later... > > Cheers, > Mark > XP is up and running in VirtualBox. took less than 1 hour since I started emerging things to get Windows with networking running. It's doing SP2/3 updates now. Completely off topic but what's the trick to free my mouse and keyboard from the Vbox prison they seem to be in? I had to come to another computer to send this message! Anyway, thanks for the pointer to VirtualBox. Now I can work on getting it working well, but at least it's running. Cheers Mark