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I want to run Ubuntu in a virtual environment on my XP home computer. What do I need and how do I proceed ?
Suggestions please
Regards
For free open source virtual machines see
Quemu at http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
Bochs at http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
or if you want to pay
VirtualPC by Microsoft
WMWare by www.wmware.comQemu is very fast and good and requires .little user's experience to put it at work. On the net you can find all the explanation you need to run confortably the selected free virtual machine.
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FYI, ms virtual pc 2004 is free now ... and so is ms virtual server
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Download free VMWare Player and use any of the pre-built virtual machines.
You can also use a virtual machine to boot the .iso of a live CD, so you can try as many as you like.
QEMU for Windows works nicely for this and is self-contained.
http://www.oszoo.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
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You can get "live" CD's which boot into Linux without touching your existing XP install. There are several around and they have a bonus feature. If you have an XP boot failure you can load Linux, "mount" your "C" drive and copy off anything you wish before attempting recovery, used it and it worked perfectly.
Try "Live UNIX" search on Google.
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Could someone please explain, what the purpose of running Ubuntu on a virtual machine means
I did a search on the subject, and it seem like you run one system inside of another.
Does this mean you run Ubuntu inside of Winxp?
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You run Ubuntu as a stand alone Linux OS without destroying your Win XP setup. The whole thing runs from the CD so you can test out Linux and see if it is for you or not.
That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The Atomic bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.
- Admiral William Leahy
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"You run Ubuntu as a stand alone Linux OS without destroying your Win XP setup. The whole thing runs from the CD so you can test out Linux and see if it is for you or not."
No, that is incorrect. A Virtual Machine is a virtual computer that you run at the same time that you are running your VM host OS.
Bob, what your referring to is a Linux LiveCD, which is booted and ran from RAM.
To answer the original question, I would suggest VMware Workstation to build the VM, and VMware Player to run it. Be sure to install the Vmware Tools on your VM after you get it installed.
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I'm back from four months incommunicado in Africa and wanted to continue trying to install Ubuntu in Windows XP with Qemu, using the manual I found on:
http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunris...
but ran into trouble as I could not find qemu-0.8.1-Windows-3.zip. So I used qemu-0.8.2-Windows.zip, expecting this to be the latest version. But after decompressing this into D:\Linux\QemuManager\qemu, (D:\ is the drive I installed everything) I got NO questions to replace. Later, after creating 10 GB space and running the QemuManager wizard I found the images directory empty and therefore no "Ubuntu6.img".
Is there anyone who can help me further ? Thanks
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