[TriLUG] XP/Vista on Ubuntu (was: Parallels)

[Brian Phelps]

I use the original XP install on this laptop that I dd'd into a VM
using VMWare Server and a Linux live CD.  Thats right, I booted VMWare
with a linux live cd and used dd to copy the original disk image to
the virtual drive.  This worked amazingly well.  Had to call in to
Microsoft to reregister my XP though.  I just told them I had to
replace the bios, which is kinda the truth.  I've had 0 problems and
I've been doing it for three years.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Mark Freeze <mfreeze at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Greg.
> I guess I'd like to open up this discussion to ask if anyone could share a
> success story of running XP/Vista on Ubuntu? And with what package?
> I saw Parallels working with XP on a friends Mac.  I was suitably impressed
> so I was glad to see their version for Linux announced a while back. But, I
> need it to work *reliably*
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I can 1/2 answer your question.  I have a legacy client that runs XP under
>> OS X and used both Parallels and VM-Ware Fusion and I can report that if
>> you're going to spend $80, Fusion is the way to go, at least under OS X.
>> Fusion has proved far more stable over the eight month test window and any
>> further "OS in a OS" deployed by me will be Fusion based.
>>
>> Parallels did work, though, but it also locked up occasionally and didn't
>> recover from sleep well at all.  USB devices under Windows via the host OS
>> were tricky as well (Fusion seems to deal with USB much better).  Also, in
>> the older version of Parallels (and this has bee hopefully fixed) IPv6
>> would
>> cause the OS under emulation to vomit on itself rather dratically.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Mark Freeze <mfreeze at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Is there anyone who is running Vista/XP within parallels on ubuntu?
>> > Regards,
>> > Mark.
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