Comments on: Run Your Windows With VMware

by: cowboyup6983

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:40:23 +0000

awesome, i’ve been testing out ubuntu on my computer, completely wiping out windows all together and now i absolutely love linux. specifically ubuntu’s compiz fusion is by far the best windows 3D desktop management has never looked better, it makes aero look so 90’s.

linux might be a bit nerdy for most, but if u have the time and patience and really want to but your cards to work without gaming its in your best interest to use linux.

i was thinking of using VMware server to install windows vista, for gaming purposes but i heard it doesnt really work well for gaming, my best option would be to dual boot. i probably wont dual boot, just have to live without the games for now.

by: cmcnorgan

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:06:37 +0000

I’ve got WinXP Pro on a SATA drive (/dev/sda), then I reclaimed an IDE drive and installed Ubuntu on it (/dev/sdb). I have vmware server installed, followed the above instructions to the letter, and it seems to be making an attempt at loading up windows, but grub stops with Error 17. In my infinite-number-of-monkeys troubleshooting way, I added a second disk (the Use a Physical Disk option) in case it needed the linux disk for one reason or another, but the error persisted (I have since removed it from the .vmx file because it didn’t help at all). Any suggestions would be appreciated - my google search wasn’t very fruitful.

by: rshoemaker

Fri, 23 May 2008 18:59:42 +0000

I run Vista and XP at the same time - in VirtualBox on Ubuntu. Why? Because I can. “Look Ma. No viri! No malignant software!”

by: jskondel

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:11:33 +0000

Same goes for Innotek VirtualBox, like VirtualPC 2007, it works great and hardly takes up any of ram or resources. You can install VirtualBox on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, and OpenSolaris hosts. Plus VirtualBox is free.

See Innotek VirtualBox for more information.

by: cueil

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:50:46 +0000

I run my linux distro on VirtualPC 2007 and it works great hardly takes up any of my ram or resorces.

by: ro9naja

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:35:55 +0000

I’m new to vmware, is there a reverse-role how to, like running my second os(linux installation on second partition) in vmware on winxp, and still i can dual boot my computer

by: shwayda

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:54:46 +0000

@Steve M

Dear Steve M, you managed to have your completely useless comment come up first and have thus exposed yourself to the rest of the world as a complete and utter dick for the rest of time.
I apologize myself for writing this comment because it is also useless but I am willing to be exposed as a dick in order to show what a complete and utter dick Steve M is and will forever be.

by: mhawke

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:59:14 +0000

Only 2 Weeks into Linux (Ubuntu Hardy) so please be kind, clear and specific…

Did everything above and here is the message I get when I run the windows.vmx file:

Even when I hit the ‘Browse’ button and navigate to the windows.vmdk file, it still complains. I have moved these files off my home directory to keep things organized but windows.vmx, windows.vmdk and windowsXP.mbr are all in the same place. Something simple I hope?

by: Dwight Walker

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:44:54 +0000

I was contemplating running Vista on top of Linux VMWare to improve performance. Vista runs like a dog so in VMWare on Linux the Linux OS should make the difference to a crazy OS like Vista. I will try it one day. VMWare isolates the problems of hardware inefficiences introduced. XP runs fast on a quadcore but Vista runs like a dog.

by: Keith Lindsey

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:58:12 +0000

Thanks, Ian! That’s what I needed to know to get it to work perfectly!

Best Regards,

Keith A. Lindsey, M.B.A.