BANGALORE, INDIA:With the latest release of VirtualBox, Windows and Linux can be run together simultaneously, and you don't even need to switch between the two. Using the seamless Windows feature of VirtualBox, you can run two different operating systems simultaneously on a single PC and you can use the applications of both operating systems from the same desktop simultaneously.
This has been made possible by the combined efforts of VirtualBox and SeamlessRDP that is meant for seamless Windows support for rdesktop. The rdesktop, ie, the remote desktop feature helps in creating X11 Window for each Windows application that you will run from the host machine, further the application that is running can be moved and resized.
In this article, we will show you how you can seamlessly work with Windows and Linux together without switching Windows of virtual machine.
Prerequisites
Before we proceed, you should have the latest VirtualBox 1.5.2 installed on your system. For this download VirtualBox 1.5.2 rpm for openSUSE 10.3 from the link provided in the direct hit box. For installation first navigate to the folder where you have downloaded the rpm file and then run the following commands in the terminal.
# rpm -ivh VirtualBox-1.5.2_25433 _openSUSE103-1.i586.rpm
# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
For running VirtualBox, navigate to Computer > more application and on the new application section click on the 'Innotek VirtualBox' icon.
