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- grungyhamster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This is pretty sweet. I've been wanting to do this for quite some time now.
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Or at least in my opinion. - knutert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5There's also an excellent tutorial on the Ubuntu forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=183209 - Flamekebab, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I must say, this information looks quite a bit more approachable. I felt rather alienated when I visited the VMWare site. Thanks to this I might actually give VMWare a shot.
- tadorna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3With VMWare you can run windows and linux VM instances on the same server, thats useful for example if you want to migrate your office servers to linux, but have some old legacy appliactions that need an old NT4 or novell netware server.
I know that you can run Windows on XEN under some circumstances, but you need one of the latest processors with builtin virtualization support for that.
If you want to virtualize only linux on linux, I prefer XEN too. - dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3VMWare server was free before MS Virtual PC, but thats not important.. Although, "I can just fire up Windows from within Ubuntu when needed (games..".. Unless you only play 2D games, your going to be disapointed.. Games will NOT run (or atleast they'll run at one or two frames a second, if your lucky)
VMWare doesn't handle 3D acceleration, which pretty much all games require now.. Although, if they do improve it to handle 3D games, with SLI cards, and dual-core computers, it should run perfectly (well, theoretically the speed of a non-dual-core system, which should run most games at reasonable settings).. Hmm..
If you do want to play games on linux, they may work in WINE, if the installer doesn't, boot into windows, install it there, then mount your windows partition in Linux, and use something along the lines of `wine /media/hda2/Program FIles/Game/Game.exe`
- Ben - systimax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How does Ubuntu Desktop handle more then 4 gigs of memory?
How does it handle Dual Procs?
I have heard conflicting info on to install a 686 kernal on desktop to get full support for dual procs or dual core - nicholashill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ITIdiots did a video podcast on using and installing Virtual Machines on VMWare, it was based on a windows install but it covers everything about setting up your environments once VMWare is up and running. A link to their podcast can be found at www.itidiots.com, its episode 13 if I remember correctly.
- tadorna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For running Windows as a desktop OS on linux, I recommend to have a look at the free VMWare player instead of the VMWare server.
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have VMWare Free Server and already installed Ubuntu as my second Operating System. Why would you like to play games in Linux instead of Windows, are you nuts? I've been writting for too long today and my fingers hurt now so I am not going to tell you all the sacrileges you commited by trying to play 3D Games in VMWare with Ubuntu installed. But ok, I'll see that you have pain to make multiple partitions in your main OS and use various Operating systems at booting your Bios. Let me tell you that this is better for playing games in Linux than trying to use VMWare. However VMWare is nice if you have only one partition and you don't want to have data in different drives. Well I will start using Ubuntu know, the installation has just finished.the Full screen mode in VMWare is amazing, and I also have 3 IP addresses wich means I can install a web server apache and still use windows for downloading bit torrent. This rulez
- jacks0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Tadorna, "If you want to virtualize only linux on linux, I prefer XEN too."
Give it a year or so, and you'll be able to virtualize windows. [ http://news.com.com/Microsoft+gives+Linux+a+virtual+hug/2100-7344_3-6095158.html ] - xiangxianni, on 01/06/2009, -0/+1Good post,I have tested it ,it also works on ubuntu 8.10
http://www.tips5.com - Visceral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"VMWare doesn't handle 3D acceleration, which pretty much all games require now.. Although, if they do improve it to handle 3D games, with SLI cards, and dual-core computers, it should run perfectly (well, theoretically the speed of a non-dual-core system, which should run most games at reasonable settings).. Hmm.."
This is both right..and wrong. With Vmware workstation at least, there is experimental d3d support. It doesnt support shaders, etc, so you might be limited, but, it will allow you to run some 3d apps and speed up all 2d apps. You can utilize up to 128 megs of vram on your card.
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_vidsound_d3d.html
*Note, it wont work with XGL running because it requires direct rendering, which xgl/compiz doesnt use. However, I've got mine xgl/compiz running via a login profile, so should I want to run it using d3d I just log out and log back in with the default gnome profile and it then supports d3d. Rendering is faster, but by how much I'm not sure yet.. - dpack4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1tadorna - Thanks! I'll check that out! I'm only familiar with ESX Server because we run that at work. I'm not that up to speed on these lower end products, but the Player looks to do what I need too. Thanks again!
- Lorian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I run Windows on VMware on Ubuntu, it's very handy as I hate having to reboot to get into Windows.
- Visceral, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Playing games in Linux? Are you nuts? I'm not trying to play games in linux with VMWare, Wine, Cedega or even natively. That's like trying to have sex while wearing an tire on your dick. No, I'm just saying native d3d support is availably in an experimental fashion should you want it.
Games in linux. Haha, oh boy, that's a good one. *wipes away tear* - aarond80, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Why VMWare over Zen? Don't get me wrong, I like VMWare on Windows, but I'd prefer to use open-source items whenever possible.
- aarond80, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Yeah, I thought about the issue of running windows on Zen after I made the comment. I know many people are working on getting Windows to run without needing VT on the processor, but there's still a ways to go.
- dpack4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This is excellent! I can't wait to try this! If this works like I think it will I won't have to dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu anymore. I can just fire up Windows from within Ubuntu when needed (games, scanning, certain web pages requiring IE). I was actually looking at buying VMWare Workstation, but if I can accomplish the same thing with this for FREE? Yee Haw! I do think VMWare Server being offered for free is VMWare's response to Microsoft offering Virtual PC for free. But what makes me excited the most is being able to run a full blown Linux system at home – a long-time Windows user converting to Linux and lovin' it!
- chris86wm, on 10/12/2007, -5/+44. Wait a few minutes for your computer to get infected with viruses.
5. Try to remove the viruses while your computer gets further infected with spyware.
6. Watch as your windows install kills itself.
7. Repeat steps 1-6 on a weekly basis. - fudg3tunn3l, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0The reason I started using Linux was to learn something new, I guess people are too impatient to try to do it for themselves nowadays.....
- auspuff, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Here is a tutorial that's a bit more thorough:
http://www.tudra.net/wp/2006/07/15/vmware-server-on-ubuntu-dapper-drake/ - verucasalt, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3Here is how to do it in 3 easy steps:
1. Install Windows
2. Run installer for VMWare
3. Run installers for hundreds of thousands of other software packages which run with 100% compataibility and performance - tehpoutine, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1This article didn't specify any different information than what VMware tells you to do. Lame article, lame submitter.
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