On Wed, 7 Dec 2016, Philip Jackson wrote:
On 06/12/16 16:32, Tanstaafl wrote:Can't imagine why anyone would mess with dual boot these days with something like Virtualbox available.Can you point to an easily understandable 'howto' on installing and using Windows in VirtualBox ? Thanks.
just did this myself using Oracle: <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/virtualbox/downloads/index.html>I'm on a debian-based system so 'sudo dkpg -i ....deb' got me going. I have a license for Windows 7 so I pointed VB to the Windows 7 iso. it is almost self-explanatory but have a look at:
<https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26217_01/E26796/html/qs-create-vm.html> worked wonderfully until the computer failed (unrelated). f. -- Felmon Davis Unnamed Law: If it happens, it must be possible. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted