If you have a newish laptop that supports virtualization in the CPU, skip VMWare and use KVM. It isn't as mature as VMWare, but it's free, very speedy. Once you learn how it works, you can use it on servers, too.
I run an XP VM on my Ubuntu desktop. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM Run this command to see if your CPU supports native virtualization: egrep '(vmx|svm)' --color=always /proc/cpuinfo On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Scott, do you have links that explain how to set this up? I've > used VMWare under XP at work and like it but I'd love to be able to > run XP periodically on my Ubuntu-based laptop. I know I could install > VMWare here but if there is something else that would work cheaper > and/or better, I'd love to look into it. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:283162 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
