VMWARE runing vista

[jack frost]

I saw an old post for vm converter where I can make an image of my vista machine and run it in ubuntu.. my question is will it play my games installed on the vista os?

Halo2, gears, etc.. Sorry if this has already been asked.. I have seen different answers.. I was able to get orig halo to run with xp virtual machine but no sound.

thanks..:)

[ajmorris]

I saw an old post for vm converter where I can make an image of my vista machine and run it in ubuntu.. my question is will it play my games installed on the vista os?

Halo2, gears, etc.. Sorry if this has already been asked.. I have seen different answers.. I was able to get orig halo to run with xp virtual machine but no sound.

thanks..:)

You can... enough RAM could be an issue however. Have you tried a dual boot since you are wanting to play games? Your XP Virtual machine may have had no sound because of drivers etc... also, have you tried VirtualBox? I find it runs VMs more smoothly, and with less RAM ;)

AJ

[olivesandtrees]

While it would defiantly be possible to get VMWare up and running with Vista and most of your Windows games (even though I think Vista support is still in beta with VMWare), you will NEVER get the performance you would want to play graphical/system intense games seamlessly over a virtual setup.

If you want the perks of Linux and the games of Windows you are probably going to have to dual-boot your machine for acceptable game performance.

[fjgaude]

While it would defiantly be possible to get VMWare up and running with Vista and most of your Windows games (even though I think Vista support is still in beta with VMWare), you will NEVER get the performance you would want to play graphical/system intense games seamlessly over a virtual setup.

If you want the perks of Linux and the games of Windows you are probably going to have to dual-boot your machine for acceptable game performance.

Amen!

[tuxxy]

It seems more and more common the only use for windows is too play 3rd party 3D games, i feel lucky as I bought a console for that job :)

[Living2007]

I saw an old post for vm converter where I can make an image of my vista machine and run it in ubuntu.. my question is will it play my games installed on the vista os?

Halo2, gears, etc.. Sorry if this has already been asked.. I have seen different answers.. I was able to get orig halo to run with xp virtual machine but no sound.

thanks..:)
Sound can be a bit of a hassel, I'm running 98 over xp and i've got zip sound and ethernet on 98 due to drivers.

Track down either your motherboard CD, or Sound card CD and install the driver from there on the XP machine

[jack frost]

thanks for all the responses.. yeah.. I will have to dual boot.. the gaming is the last thing keeping me with a windows OS. I got rid of my 360 since I went through 2 of them with the rings of death..etc. (don't really want to get another) I was going to do the seamless desktop on one machine and keep the other dual boot for the windows gaming.