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| Submitted by sol77 on Sun, 2008-05-11 18:12 | ||
Site is using PHP Version 5.2.5 now. This is a good thing. Yay! ^^ Drupal 6 looks really nice btw, hope the modules we use will be ported soon. Lastly, I miss playing DS... Do any of you kind folks have any experience with running Win XP on a virtual machine in Linux? I can't make up my mind about what software to use for it. blogs: |
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A lot of things computer-related are still over my head unfortunately. What little I know is just recently learned. (Still new to computer geekdom) ^^
...but wouldn't running a dual-boot system be easier?
PhoeniX > I'm in the learning stages myself in many computer-related areas. But I have to step it up now since my girlfriend wants to learn to program and also uses a more technical OS than me. Don't want to be left behind and feel clueless compared to her.
Sharkull > I don't want to switch back and forth between operating systems when I want to relax with a game so not really. But it would be good for playing LAN and such. Hmm but that might help me choose since I then would need software that can run a virtual machine but use an existing installation on a different partition, since I want to share the save folders.
I didn't know such a thing existed...
You'll do fine as long as you don't try and use the video.
I've only used Linux on servers, and only used VM on mainframes (where Linux runs under the VM hypervisor, not the other way round) so I can't comment on the game setup, but it appears that DirectX and VM systems each want full control of the video hardware and can't tolerate the other.
So I think Sharkull's answer is the right one. Boot XP when you want to play the game. There's probably no need to run anything else under Windows, so why bother with a VM setup at all on a desktop/laptop? It's just an extra overhead when you're only using one OS at a time.
I'm thinking of getting a laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed soon, and intend an XP dual-boot install when I get it (that way the supplier gets to debug the Linux drivers).
I don't think using a VM is such a good idea, as virtual machines do not the graphic card so you would need a very, very strong processor to do anything with 3D things..
Wine, which is nearing it's first release, might be a better idea. DS appears to work, however according to the appDB it still has a bug in it. It is possible that the bug is fixed already.. I don't know, I didn't test it..
Also DS2 seems to run without problems.
If you are having problems maybe OC can help you..
Sharkull - it sure does.
ghastley - I still need programs like Visual studio and some Adobe programs, mostly for school. Also I think virtual machines like Parallels and KVM support 3D acceleration. At any rate, I would like to be able to play a win game for 10 min, pause and do some work and then go back to the game. Or even just start up SE when I feel like it or Illustrator when I need it. DS will work with wine, but not most of the applications I need.
I really do have to get around to installing Linux on one of my old machines so I can play around with it and learn more about the available feature sets... I know that there would pretty much have to be some sort of Windows environment emulation (even OS/2 had this... yes, I do have OS/2 experience :P ), but being able to run a VM session using the resources of a full / separate Windows install is a cool idea for sure.
It sure is. I and my girlfriend are currently exploring different distributions to find out what is out there. Reason is we want to run the same version or at least flavors of the same system. Next stop is settling on a window manager and finding the OS VM that suits our needs.
Lots of fun.