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Skriven 2010-08-18 15:29:21 av Paul Quinn (3:640/384)
Ärende: I [heart] Win XP Pro
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Hi! All,

It's official!  I l-o-v-e XPP.

It's been the most resilient Windows I've ever used.  It's rock steady, and
easily adapts to hard/soft-ware changes.  And I've made quite a few changes
over the last seven years or so.

The latest escapade was migrating my wife's XPP machine to a VirtualBox (vBox)
'toy' on my wife's newest U'u 10.04 box.

Plan 'A' was originally to use VMware's Converter tool from the then running
XPP installation on my wife's old PC.  It failed.

Plan 'B': I resorted to copying the entire machine's HDD to my little Dell
netbook (just under 8gigs).  Step two involved formatting a vBox HDD with an XP
boot disk.  Step three: copy the old HDD contents from the netbook to the vBox
HDD, using a Puppy linux live CD to access the network from inside the vBox
toy.

With pounding heart, I eventually hit the -start- button in vBox to run-up the
XPP toy.  Well blow me down; the bloody thing started!  I could see XPP pretty
much shake its head, give a shrug, and then proceeded to tell me about the
hardware changes and allow me to fine-tune its operation!

Sure I've had to do some quick research through Google and either vBox or U'u
forums but I've just now pronounced it usable to my wife. Printing was a bit of
a hassle until I ironed out a problem with U'u but it now works.  (I must admit
that I don't really know what finally fixed the problem.)

To appreciate the situation, it should be stated that U'u has control over the
printer (which is connected via USB) and the vBox toy doesn't have USB enabled,
which didn't seem to be an option with the version used (3.1.6, I think).

So, the vBox toy uses the printer as a network resource, and fortunately had
the exact driver available.  Gosh, I wonder if that had something to do with
the fact that XPP used to drive the printer directly!?!  Yep, you bet.  XPP
hung on to the drivers in its library even though I had deleted the printer
definition from the Control Panel.

Oh yes, there's one or two hiccups still to iron out but XPP is ready & willing
to operate just as if it was cloned to a different -physical- machine.

I l-o-v-e XPP.

Cheers,
Paul.

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