Re: [Hampshire] Disk images and virtualisation

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Author: john lewis
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Disk images and virtualisation
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:59:19 +0000
Dr Adam J Trickett <adam.trickett@???> wrote:

> I found using physical media a pain and I convert phyiscal media
> into iso files, or simply use a downloaded iso file directly
> without bothering to burn it to CD. It has the twin advantage of
> being both a lot faster and more reliable than read CD/DVDs. Both
> VirtualBox and Qemu are happy to mount iso files as CD/DVDs.


trouble is you can't easily get hold of xp.iso or vista.iso

:-)

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