From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Diamond Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs? Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 08:59:05 -0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87fv88q4t5.fsf@debian.uxu> <87sic6stcg.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <20150411125610231765777@bob.proulx.com> <87lhhx7f6s.fsf@gmail.com> <874mojtxx5.fsf@debian.uxu> <5f29e7cb-f178-4eb1-85c7-e2bbc90f2677@googlegroups.com> <878udrlmm7.fsf@debian.uxu> <3f684967-5d47-43d9-8ffb-275c129203a8@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429444822 22303 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2015 12:00:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 12:00:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 19 14:00:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjntc-0006vi-ED for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 14:00:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48232 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjntb-0007JF-SS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 08:00:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9197b154d54b916c21aa3b57845cff74"; logging-data="1517"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18N3VU0JGnnZfYItCXd1gOW" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/cxPiE22eXug3pkNxIR33oDtTBs= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211575 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103856 Archived-At: On 2015-04-18 at 17:05 ADT, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rusi wrote: >> [To Bob] >> >> Any suggestions for making a victim (oops experimental) windows >> running on a VM running on stock (debian/ubuntu) linux? > > I am fortunate that I don't need to work with MS-Windows. That means > that I only know about it through hearsay. But you are wanting to run > MS-Windows on GNU/Linux? Is that right? Why? > > If you are on MS-Windows and want to create a VM I hear good things > about VirtualBox. However that name recognition does not extend in > the reverse direction. VirtualBox on GNU/Linux is not very good. It > was declared unsupportable by the Linux kernel folks a while back.[1] > I don't think that situation has changed. So unfortunately people > running on MS-Windows often have good results with VirtualBox there. > Then they try to transfer that knowledge to running VirtualBox on a > Linux kernel system and though it sometimes works the general > experience isn't not great overall. I inherited a Fedora system > running VirtualBox and I found the experience lacking. I eventually > converted it to something different. > > [1] http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk5Mw That is almost 5 years old. Don't you think it is a bit irrelevant to the current year? FWIW I use virtualbox (Linux host, mostly Linux guests) regularly and haven't seen any problems I can even tenuously connect to it. The mileage of people still living in 2011 may vary. Cheers. Jim