[SLUG] >1 OS at a time

[Martin Webb]

Rob Hall wrote:
> On Saturday 09 December 2006 22:06, Stephen O'Neill wrote:
>> commercially and seen it be be a reliable way to virtualize windows
>> environments but I haven't seen it run Linux.
> 
> I am currently running a Vista VM and an XP VM using the "free" version of 
> VMWare under Kubuntu. An absolute gem of software! Easy to configure, simple 
> to install. The only limitation that I have found (and I'm sure that some 
> tinkering will solve it) is using things like memory sticks which apparently 
> involve disabling the relevant module in the kernel. At the moment, linux 
> takes over. Oh, that and VPNs which I'm having trouble with. 
> 
> Anyone know a reliable and decent Terminal Services Client that I can log into 
> a Server 2k3 environment with 'cos all the ones I've tried so far have been 
> pants!
> 
>> Re. Media player which version of this do you require? Wine claims to have
>> fairly good support for v9 (though ymmv installing it on Fedora).
> 
> You may find that older versions of Media Player won't support some of these 
> music websites.
> 
> I've largely got round most of my woes by using a VM of XP (with all the 
> latest patches, updates and what have you and the latest version of Media 
> Player) and saving everything to a shared FAT32 partition so I can listen to 
> all my music either under Windows or Linux. It works a treat.
> 
> Rob
> 
> 


OK, let's take this s-l-o-o-w-l-y.

Say I go the VMWare route first (I've got to start somewhere).  In your 
experience, what are the steps I go through?  This looks pretty 
interesting stuff.

1 download VMWare
2 ...

Thanks, Rob,
Martin