HowTo: Windows (XP) on Ubuntu with VMWare Server

[Peturrr]

Has anyone seriously tested the performance you get with this? Or is it not even worth doing the requires a great deal of resources?

(Looking for a better alternative to Windows for World of Warcraft. Wine seems sluggish. I am thinking this isn't going to do the trick...)

I don't think it's ready for gaming. At least not the server version. They are working on integrating Direct Rendering in the VMWare Workstation, so you have really almost the same 3d power in your Virtual machine as in your native environment.

[Rackerz]

darren@darren:~$ cd ~/Desktop
darren@darren:~/Desktop$ cd vmware-server-distrib
darren@darren:~/Desktop/vmware-server-distrib$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl
Password:
A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.

Failure

Execution aborted.

darren@darren:~/Desktop/vmware-server-distrib$

What the hell? I haven't even got vmware installed.

[chinaski]

thanks a lot Peturrr this howto worked perfectly for me!

[goahead]

Sweet guide, perfect for a linux newbie like me..

Now i can remove my orginal xp installation and skip the dual boot thingy..

[Whimar]

Is there any way to get a file i save in my VMware session out into linux?

Basically i want to create documents in my windows VM then carry them across onto my dapper installation.

Thanks!

[Rackerz]

Ok no problems now, thanks it installed perfectly!

[chinaski]

Is there any way to get a file i save in my VMware session out into linux?

Basically i want to create documents in my windows VM then carry them across onto my dapper installation.

Thanks!

hello, for me simple copy&paste works

[Whimar]

hello, for me simple copy&paste works

Mhmm not working for me sadly, also is there any way to get a 1920x1200 resolution for the windows graphics driver. Its got pretty much every res except that one

[Hellaxe]

Try with the windows network and copy it to dapper

[kassetra]

Is there any way to get a file i save in my VMware session out into linux?

Basically i want to create documents in my windows VM then carry them across onto my dapper installation.

Thanks!

In my version, under Virtual Machine Setting -> Options, I setup "shared folders" and then setup which folders I wanted my VMWare session to have access to.

Then, it's simply in the network on windows.