XP/Ubuntu dual-boot

[Chris Aitken]

E K wrote:
> --- Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:41:48AM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm thinking of installing XP and Ubuntu as a dual-boot on my
>>>       
>> daughter's 
>>     
>>> machine. Her birthday is less than two weeks away. I want to be
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> But, don't you think it is better to run Windows on a virtual machine
> like qemu or kvm than reboot your machine for a limited application
> that you intend to run on Windows? One advantage you can have is that
> once you create the virtual machine and activated windows XP you can
> make a copy of the virtual machine file to use it in case at some
> later time your Windows machine is screwed. That will save you
> another installation followed by a long call to MS and some
> explanation for another activation.
>   
"Activation"? I guess I've been keeping away from MS products for a long 
while. Can't I just borrow an XP CD (with product key) and install from 
that?

Chris

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