am trying to use Wine

[TexasMike]

sigh... will have to boot into XP I guess

Why not setup Sun VirtualBox with XP, and use it for this sort of program, instead of re-booting every time you want to run some Windows pgm that will not run under WINE? I have been using this for 3 or 4 years, and it makes my life a lot easier than constantly re-booting.
Just a thought....

[billhedrick]

can I point the virtual box to my existing XP install? It's on another disk in my system

[TexasMike]

can I point the virtual box to my existing XP install? It's on another disk in my system

I believe you can, however I have not tried to do that particular thing with VirtualBox. You can see all the Docs and User info at this URL:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/End-user_documentation. I suggest that you take a look at the Technical and User's Manuals there for more info. I will look into using an existing XP installation as the VirtualBox Guest OS on the same machine as Ultimate Edition. I have a Laptop with Ultimate Edition and XP installed in a Dual Boot environment, so I will try to setup VB to use the existing XP installation as the "Guest OS", instead of installing XP in a "New Virtual Machine", and post back here in a day or two.
I'm gonna be real busy for the next few days, so my reply may be a little slow in coming. If you want to experiment, I would suggest using a system that you DO NOT "need" - just in case something goes bonkers and damages your installation.
I have had very good results with importing and exporting Guest VMs from one system to another, just haven't tried to use an existing XP install as the "Guest OS".

[linuxfreack]

You can take e look here.

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=1966

dit not test it I have no native windows for the moment.

Little update found this procedure dit not test it for the same reason then before but normally with this you don't have to make image of your native win.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=984437

BUT IF YOU FOLLOW THIS PROCEDURE THEN YOU REALY WORKING ON YOUR PSY DISK AND EVERY CHANGE YOU MAKE ALSO DRIVERS END SO ON ARE CHANGED ON THE DISK, SO WHEN YOU BOOT BACK IN WIN WITHOUT VIRTUALBOX THAN AL YOUR SETTINGS ARE CHANGED THE IMPACT OF THAT CAN BE VERY HARMFUL I THINK.

So bee very careful no guaranties

Note that you will never have the same graphical capacities on virtualbox than you have directly running win.

Greetz,

[ADPdirty]

It turns out what ever it is i try to execute has to be on same HDD with file system.
And i tried to execute them with wine while files being located on separate HDD;s that were for windows. I dont know why does it give a rats ass where files located, but i was not able to change any permissions or check box with executable option unless i copied those files to OS's HDD.

Oh well its fixed now, but i also found another problem with wine while being ROOT user.
When i loged in as normal user, wine works OK, but when i loged in as ROOT then wine didnt want to work and some of other applications such as volume control didnt want to work at all so i guess its true that being a ROOT all the time is no good, but i wish i would not need to setup any users and just be root from the begining, maybe that would solve the problem.

[onosendai58]

If this is solved then close this thread.