Virtualisation, lack of VMplayer and more...

[Primoz]

OK the meaning of this post is to help me and others with similar problems to get off the dual boot and move to VM instead.
I'll post my experience and links about this here. Hope that this will help anyone (well at least me..)

I found a old thread on this forum that explained how you can convert your physical XP "machine" in virtual using VMware converter.
But I cant find VMplayer in add/remove or Adept / Synaptic.
So I went to VMware site to download it, but there is o .deb file, there is .rpm a "sourcecode" in tar.gz and .bundle.
I guess I should try .rpm with alien? Is that correct...
Anyway I know about virtualbox and would like to use it instead of VMplayer, I did found how to change physical machine in virtual, but it's not that
straight forward as the VMware. And it's said that you can loos all of your data in trying this (which I don't want to..).

Anyway what I want to know:
Does anyone know what happened to VMplayer, why is there none for Kubuntu?
Is it safe to even have VM on 32 bit one core processor.
What are your experience with virtualbox and/or VMplayer.
Are they even useful as an "gaming platform", that's why I want to use the VM windows.

Thanks for all the help, suggestions or experience...

PS: how to virtualise existing Windows with:
Virtualbox: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=1966
VMware: http://www.howtoforge.com/vmware_con..._windows_linux

[dibl]

Re: Virtualisation, lack of VMplayer and more...

There is this:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3097965.0

and this:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3095339.0

The VMware Player 2.5 download is not in .deb or .rpm package, it is a self-extracting installer/package (similar to GoogleEarth). Just choose 32-bit or 64-bit as appropriate.

On gaming --- no. The Win XP VM will not have the use of your real hardware, so you cannot install the Windows video driver, and the graphics will not be suitable for gaming (well, nothing more than Solitaire). Better use Wine if you want decent graphics for gaming.

[Primoz]

Re: Virtualisation, lack of VMplayer and more...

Thanks dibl.
And I'm sorry to hear that VM is not the solution for gaming.
Yes Wine is quite good, but it doesn't support some games that I want like the Total War series.
At least that was the case at wine 1.0.
I checked WineHQ again and Total war and Command & Conquer are rated gold, thats good news!
So I guess no VM for me...