Re: Advice re running Windows in/with Linux

Re: using TrueCrypt
TrueCrypt have been discontinued since 2014 and it's recommended to use
other products to do the same (i.e. VeraCrypt)

Rgds,
Pawel

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 7:57 PM, bigbro <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My advice is dated, but hopefully provides some guidance:
>
> ONE:
> Your machine specs should be fine for virtualisation, depending on what
> you want to run, of course.
>
> For what sound like the same reasons (I need Windows for some stuff, and
> rebooting is a waste of time) I've been running Windows as a VM in
> VirtualBox for years, though I'm still running WinXP, so your mileage may
> vary. I've no experience of running later versions of Windows in a VM on
> Linux. Hopefully someone else can provide some pointers.
>
> Note that there are some limitations on use of peripherals (like USB and
> external drives) with VMs under VirtualBox. If possible, test before
> committing to a final strategy.
>
> Also, I've had varied luck running old Windows games under VirtualBox,
> mostly related to graphics drivers and DirectX, and things like
> edge-scrolling, which doesn't always work as expected under a virtualised
> environment - even if running full-screen. Part of the problem is that
> modern monitors and resolutions are FAR higher than old games ever expected
> to see. I don't (yet) have a good solution for this.
>
> Just to be aware, I've no idea of the licensing restrictions (if any) of
> running Windows in a virtualised or containerised environment. Again,
> hopefully others can shed some light.
>
> TWO:
> I use WinXP, so I'll defer to the advice of others on which version of
> Windows you should run.
>
> THREE:
> Like you, I've used Truecrypt to have encrypted data accessible to both
> operating system - if the data has to be read raw. Since my usage was read
> heavy with occasional writes this worked well for me. For Linux I use LUKS
> disk encryption, but this is not readable in raw form by Windows (AFAIK.)
> Nowadays I mostly have data on a LUKS partition and share it over the
> network (or virtualised network) using sshfs. For Windows you can probably
> do something similar by sharing it using Samba/SMB. This means the data at
> rest is encrypted and accessible from the Linux instance - and accessible
> as a network share from within a Windows VM. Note that this is NOT useful
> if you're talking about a removable drive that you want to mount on other
> Windows machines - in which case Truecrypt is the best product I've come
> across thus far.
>
> Hope the above helps.
>
> Best regards,
> -->Gar
>
>
>
>
> 2016-01-06 0:54 GMT+00:00 Jason Horan <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I'm looking to tap into the combined wisdom of the group.  I've had a
>> dual-boot PC for many years, running both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 15.04. For
>> Christmas my wife (and brother-in-law) got me a bespoke PC which he put
>> together. The specs are as follows:
>> *CPU* Core i5-4460 3.2GHz (6MB cache)
>> *RAM* 16GB DDR3
>> *HD1* SSD 250GB
>> *HD2* 3TB SATA 3Gb/s
>> *Graphics* GeForce GTX 750 (2GB DDR5)
>> *Motherboard* ASRock H97 Anniversary, ATX, (UEFI)
>>
>> I plan to have my OSs on HD1, the SSD, and keep the other drive for data.
>> I'll be running Ubuntu but I also need to have Windows installed, for a few
>> legacy applications. Because the machine is custom-built it doesn't come
>> with any pre-installed OS. My old dual-boot system worked fine, but it was
>> a pain having to reboot to change from one to the other. Which leads to my
>> questions:-
>>
>> *ONE:*
>> Dual-boot or just boot into Ubuntu and run Windows as a virtual machine?
>> What are the pros or cons for each option and how much would they actually
>> matter?
>>
>> *TWO:*
>> Which version of Windows to use? Windows 10 or Windows 7? Again, what is
>> the rationale behind the advice.
>>
>> *THREE:*
>> In my old dual-boot system I'd a data partition which I had encrypted
>> with TrueCrypt and that mounted on boot, after the password, in both OSs. I
>> will need to have an encrypted partition again. Does this influence your
>> advice for question one? Also, what strategy for encrypting a partition
>> would you use at this stage? I will need access to this encrypted data
>> partition from both the Linux and Windows environments.
>>
>> Many thanks for the advice, and Happy New Year!!!
>>
>>
>> Jason
>>
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