Hi All,

This is not meant to be a tutorial, I'm not that good at writing them, This is really how I've almost completely got rid of my last Windows PC.
I have 2 things that at present necessitate me keeping Windows XP, MS Visio lots of diagrams, and MS Outlook for connecting to my Hosted Exchange account.
I have created a live working image of my last Win XP machine that now runs in Virtualbox on LL2

These are the steps I took to do it, mostly culled from other threads/forums, and it's been running @ 10 days, and have not had to switch on my Win XP box.

1. Downloaded a couple of utilities in advance:
    > Disk2VHD, no install required it is just an .exe, it's a MS tool to create an image of your live running Windows PC
      just copy to c:\
      http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysin...56415.aspx

    > Clonevdi , no install required it is just an .exe. Used to convert the vhd file(s) above to vdi files for better compatibility with VBox
      Just unzip contents to a folder, say c:\clonevdi\
      https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=22422

Then:
1. In Windows XP I went into Add/Remove programs and removed any/all programs that I have a Linux replacement for.
2. I then ran CCleaner(used it for years) and cleaned out all old files, cleaned the registry and removed old System restore points, except last one.
3. Then defragged my disks.

For the next bit I used an external USB drive(500GB) to avoid disk space issues

Run DISK2VHD.exe, It will show you all your disks & partitions on your XP PC.
Using the tick boxes you need to create 1 ".vhd" per disk, I had 2 disks & 4 partitions, disk1 = C: & E: and disk2 = D: & F:
I created xplivedisk1.vhd and xplivedisk2.vhd on to the external USB drive
This took about 2hr 15mins

Then,
Run clonevdi.exe, It will allow you to navigate to the vhd(s) "Source" and convert them to .vdi "Destination"
I kept everything on the USB drive, and created xplivedisk1.vdi and xplivedisk2.vdi
Leave the generate new uuid ticked, and tick the compact drive while copying.
This took about 1hr 30mins

You now have your .vdi file(s) to use with VBox.

Start up VBox, and start to create a VM...
Give it a name like XP-Live, and move to the next step where you create a disk and stop.
VBox will have now created a folder in the default path of VBox, or where ever you have specified VM's to be created.
Find the XP-Live folder, and copy your .vdi(s) to this folder from your USB drive.

If you only have 1 drive,
Now in VBox continue with creating a new VM, and select use existing disk, and navigate to the .vdi you just copied.
and continue with VM creation setting the appropriate memory, display and network values.

"IMPORTANT" if you had 2 drives,
Now in VBox continue with creating a new VM, and select use existing disk, and navigate to the .vdi that contained your c:\ drive.
for me that was xplivedisk1.vhd, and continue with VM creation setting the appropriate memory, display and network values.
But "Do Not" start VM
Now the VM is created you need to manually add your 2nd disk in the Disk Management part of the VM config, for me xplivedisk2.vdi

If everything worked, you should be able to start you new VM, and it should be just like your Live XP PC.
Depending on the H/W of the original XP PC you may have to enable/disable things like IOAPIC for it to run.
Also remember,
Install "Guest Additions" into your new XP VM when it's running via the Devices Menu, it will add various drivers
This is different to the "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack" that you add into Virtualbox it'self.

I will try to answer any questions,
But most of the above is a short form of what I found by Googling.

Dave

Hi

Would be nice to have Spotify available out the box can you add please to software installer app.

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Hello every one ... forgive me for my simple English
Iam new in Linux... I installed  elementary OS 64 bit
Its really cool . But I have problem with LAN and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and audio ... they don't  work at all
So I can't use internet to install missing drivers :-(
I tried ubunto before I installed elementary  and everything was working expect Bluetooth
Can you help me please ?
my laptop is Lenovo g500
LAN : Atheros LAN
Bluetooth : Atheros Broadcom
Wi-Fi : Atheros Broadcom

Hello every one ... forgive me for my simple English
Iam new in Linux... I installed  elementary OS 64 bit
Its really cool . But I have problem with LAN and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and audio ... they don't  work at all
So I can't use internet to install missing drivers :-(
I tried ubunto before I installed elementary  and everything was working expect Bluetooth
Can you help me please ?
my laptop is Lenovo g500
LAN : Atheros LAN
Bluetooth : Atheros Broadcom
Wi-Fi : Atheros Broadcom

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One thing I noticed about Linux Lite is the lack of a music management media player. Sure, VLC will play music, but a music manager should be included in my opinion. Most of these are bloated, but this particular music manager is super lightweight and does so much. I have been using it for a long time and find it stable, fast and feature rich. It has the excellent ability of downloading covers directly to your album folders, and the smart play feature is something I have never encountered in a player other than this. It does not get mention while other lesser managers do, and I only found it from testing LXLE not too long ago. I installed it on Lite and it works so well and integrates with it perfectly. I don't have to sell it, try it for yourself and I think you'll be sold without my input

It is also noteworthy to add that while v0.3.5 is in the repos, v0.3.7 is the latest. There are builds for precise, quantal and saucy, but any of these install and function perfectly in trusty.

I noticed quickly that the built in compositor in XFCE does not play nicely with Geforce cards. In my case, the GTX 460 with the proprietary Nvidia driver. I experience weird effects like checkerboard patterns while playing videos with the default compositor. This has been an issue for some time, and I have had enough of it! So, I set up Compton as an alternate compositor and it works splendidly. This might help others:

You’ll need to switch of any existing compositing you’ve got running, otherwise this won’t work. Unless you know differently, this will be the default one, built into the XFCE window manager, xfwm4.

To switch this off, go into the Applications menu and click ‘Settings Manager’:

Then click ‘Window Manager Tweaks’, then the ‘Compositor’ tab, and un-tick the ‘Enable Display Compositing’ box. Then:

Recently I posted on the LL forum that I had been hit by the partner18mydomainadvisor, by inadvertently visiting its .com website, when I had only wished to look up information about it. To cut a long story short, I reformatted by hard drive, and clean installed LL2 again.  Problem sorted.

However, the experience made me ask the question about how secure my set-ups are, i.e. a win7/LL2 dual-boot and a  distro-only multiboot).  Since I came to Linux I have always been a paid subscriber to the ESET antivirus version for Linux (having had very good experience of this with previous MS Windows only set-ups) to take care of general security, together with the usual regular updating of LL2.  I should add that I am a home-user, and sole user of the laptops concerned - I do not use the laptops in public spaces.

What about passwords?  This made me look at the three instances when a password is needed in any given session...
(1) LL2 logon - a password was set-up when installing the OS (I have set LL2 to auto-logon when booting up)
(2) Making changes to the computer - a password is needed (permission requested) when say installing new software with synaptic package manager
(3) Keyring for Wi-Fi - a password is requested for the keyring default, whenever I use the Wi-Fi  after auto logon

I then realized that the password I set up for (1), is the same as (2) & (3)!  Doesn't this render my LL set-ups vulnerable to malware attack?

My question is, should I have three different passwords for LL2, one for each of the above three instances?

Any advice on this gratefully appreciated - many thanks ...

Regards
Mike

Just popping in to say hello and to express my thanks for Linux Lite 2.0. This distro is absolutely amazing. So polished, so light, so damn good. The best XFCE based Ubuntu distro available, hands down.

Hello,

I have just completed my first ever music mix, and just wanted to share about this.
I used Linux Lite and Audacity.
It is the first project I have done using Linux.
I used 16 separate sessions, this taking me total time of just over 32 hours to make the mix, the mix is 50 minutes and 33 seconds duration.
The time includes learning to use Audacity (sort of lol), on the fly whilst making the mix, without RTM at all, I did view it at the beginning it didn't cover any of the things I wanted to know at that time, so I left it alone for later, and had a play instead, which is usually how I first begin to use a software.
I also used some sound effects, and I also made different ones by overlapping/merging anything from 2-5 effects, I also made a couple of effects by using sound bites of songs.
A maximum of approximately no more than 50% of any song duration was used, and many use less than this.
The beginning of a song on the mix in some cases is not the beginning of the original song, and in some cases the song on the mix begins 50 or even 75% through the original song, done for blending/making fit, effect.

It's a reggae mix, I used the sub genres  -  Lovers Rock, Roots, Dancehall, Reggaeton.
It begins with lovers rock and ends with it too.
I use roots either side of the dancehall. This was a challenge being the fastest and slowest songs.

I like the mix myself but am unsure if anyone else would like it, it was a really enjoyable and fun first project, I hope my post encourages someone else with whatever their first project on Linux Lite is, and I hope to read about your projects too.