Yes you can
i use Vmware for this purpose its called virtualisation you can have a win xp virtual machine on a ubuntu check out vmware.com or there are many other open source softwares for this like Qemu and Xen Check them out by reading on wikipedia on OS Virtualisation > On 09/12/2007, Sreenadh < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am long time fan of Linux and MOST of my applications are all > > opensource and most run on LInux also. But i have never been able to > > fully switch to Linux because i depend on applications like Dreamweaver > > and Visual Studio 2005. > > I just started using Ubuntu and now i am desperate to switch to Ubuntu > > fully. I am Sick & tried of win xp. > > Dual boot does not sound like a good idea b'cos i have to shut down > > Ubuntu for just some small work in Win xp. > > Is it possible to run win xp on top of Ubuntu like an application in > > Ubuntu. So that i can open my window for win XP do the work and close > > it after use. > > How successful is it?Does it have some problem?? How can i get it > > done?? Has anyone of you done it?? Whats you feed back??? > > > > > > > > > > -- > Regards > > Venu Gopal > > venudxb[at]gmail[dot]com > > > > CONFIDENTIAL > This email message and any attachments are for the exclusive use of the > intended recipient's and may contain confidential and privileged > information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is > prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender > by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message along with any > attachments, from your computer system. > If any secure messages have to be transmitted they can be encrypted > using my PGP 4096 bit public key. The key will be sent to you on request or > can be accesed at http://venudxb.googlepages.com/pgpkey . -- Regards Venu Gopal venudxb[at]gmail[dot]com CONFIDENTIAL This email message and any attachments are for the exclusive use of the intended recipient's and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message along with any attachments, from your computer system. If any secure messages have to be transmitted they can be encrypted using my PGP 4096 bit public key. The key will be sent to you on request or can be accesed at http://venudxb.googlepages.com/pgpkey .
