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Hi all,

I run Win XP pro on my Toshiba Satellite Laptop. I just got a copy of Ubuntu 9.04 .iso and I have VMPlayer. How do I go about setting ubuntu up to run as
a virtual machine...


thankyou

VMWare Player can only run existing VM ... you'll have to create it with Workstation, Server, ESX, ... and then run it with Player.

The other solution is to get existing appliance from VMWare site, or to use notfred's FAH solutions.

Thanks. Also the Linux console (32-bit)client runs faster than the Windows console/system tray clients, correct? So if I run two linux console clients in a VM
i will get better results than running one Windows console client and one Windows system tray clients?

Thankyou for all help.

You won't see any differences with uniprocessor clients. They are running at the same speed under Windows and Linux.

That's not true with SMP clients (which can use more than one CPU at once) : Linux version is doing better than Windows one.

If you don't need the Linux to play with, then you can use notfred's virtual appliance (http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/) with minimum setup. It's already setup and very small, and all you have to do is reconfigure it with your name and team, and reset the appliance. You can run it under the player,workstation and server version of VMware.

I assume I can't run the Notfred client with my E7200, even though I'm using Windows 7 64 bit?

Notfred's appliance is universal- x86 and x64; SMP requires x64 support. As far as I know E7200 supports x64, and it runs x64 Win7 for you, so it should be fine with notfred's SMP.

extrasalty wrote:Notfred's appliance is universal- x86 and x64; SMP requires x64 support. As far as I know E7200 supports x64, and it runs x64 Win7 for you, so it should be fine with notfred's SMP.

But it doesn't have virtualization technology....It'd still work? Some people are saying no, some saying yes...

Not as quick as hardware accelerated virtualization, but it should run. Since there are a lot more points from A2 WUs, you could probably still make more than WinSMP. My old Athlon x2@3.1GHz yielded around 1800-1900 PPD from Ubuntu 8.04 VMware with binary(software) virtualization and half that(on a good day) from WinSMP. Before I had problems with notfred's(it wasn't backing up) and I had my own install of Ubuntu, but now the virtual appliance works like a charm. Very small footprint too, compared to regular distro.

Ok some links if your are interested in pre built VMPlayer distros.

http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/

For Ubuntu specifically look towards the bottom of the page.

Quick link.

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/though ... -amd64.zip - 224MB Download

Notes: There is no root account. Login as user "notroot", password is "thoughtpolice"

There are alternatively a whole load of other distros available there. Maybe try CentOS at some point.