Hi Mark,

You should be able to run virtualbox on Linux and download a windows 7 .iso file to create the VM. The Windows machine will run without a license for at least 30 days. I won't be available to assist physically but can work over email if you have questions. There may also be an open source virtual disk converter similar to the vmware products have but I have not seen it yet.

Tmartinez@iaia.edu

Thank you,

Toby

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   1. urgent need for a Toshiba laptop charger OR with win vm on
      GNU/Linux (Mark Galassi)


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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 22:03:12 -0700
From: Mark Galassi <mark@galassi.org>
To: NMGLUG org mailing list <nmglug@nmglug.org>
Subject: [nmglug] urgent need for a Toshiba laptop charger OR with win
        vm on GNU/Linux
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Dear nmglugers,

I urgently need a charger for a Toshiba laptop.  Mine just died.

The reason is that I am running a chess tournament this weekend.
The
tournament needs this particular laptop, which I inherited from
the guy
who used to run them.  It runs "windows 7 home premium 32bit" and
a
piece of s/w called SwissSys which is required to submit
tournaments,
and which I have not been able to port with Wine.

So I need to urgently do one of the following:

* Find a charger that can handle 19V, 3.43 amperes, and has the
  right
  shape and polarity.

* Find someone who has experience "lifting" a Windows installation
  into
  a VM to run on a GNU/Linux system.  It would have to preserve
  the CPU
  id or whatever mechanism this s/w uses to node-lock.

* Do a new installation of a Windows VM and get the new s/w on
  there -
  would have to happen very quickly on Friday morning, and might
  still
  fail.  Has anyone ever installed Windows into a VM and can guide
  me
  through it?  That is the solution for the medium term because I
  don't
  want to have a Windows laptop for chess tournaments.

Anyone have ideas?


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