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    Windows 7 VM install

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by rahmant, Nov 11, 2009.

  1. rahmant

    rahmant Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just bought an 8940G from Newegg and received it yesterday.

    I started it up, just enough to run the recovery tools and burn the recovery DVD's. After that, I blew it away and installed Ubuntu (9.10)

    My intention is/was to run Windows 7 in a VM off of Ubuntu, but I'm a bit concerned about my ability to do the reinstallation off of the recovery DVD's in the VM. I'll be running VMware 7 Workstation.

    Any thoughts/comments?

    -) Has anyone ever done a native OS installation from the recovery DVD's?

    -) Will the Win7 OS install from the recovery DVD's barf if being installed in a VM? I'm guessing that the install would be OEM locked, so it technically won't "see" my laptop hardware in the VM environment.

    Thanks,

    Tariq
     
    rahmant, Nov 11, 2009
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  2. lastat

    lastat Notebook Consultant

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    Tariq,

    If you do not try you will never know :).
    Why do you want to use Ubuntu if you have W7?
    Some time ago, I tried Ubuntu 9.04 and had too many problems with : hibernation, suspend, sound.
    In my opinion, the better idea is to install Ubunty as VM and W7 as primary OS.

    Lastat
     
    lastat, Nov 11, 2009
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  3. rahmant

    rahmant Notebook Enthusiast

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    I guess I'm a glutton for punishment :)

    9.10 seems to work fine with the machine. So far, suspend works and I hibernated right before coming to work. I'll see if it revives ok later on this evening.

    Video seems fine, found a procedure for a packaged upgrade to the latest beta Nvidia drivers for some eye candy. Audio was recognized by default and does work with the volume jog wheel. Wireless sync'ed fine with my home network AP.

    I'm likely only going to be using W7 for light/medium gaming, so I'm hoping that the updates in VMware 7 will allow for reasonable playability.

    Thanks,

    Tariq
     
    rahmant, Nov 11, 2009
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    lastat Notebook Consultant

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    If you are going to use W7 for gaming so install it as Second OS
     
    lastat, Nov 11, 2009
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  5. dextrorotatrix

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    W7 OEM can't be activated in vmware unless you do an elaborate bios hack (the vmware bios) ...... moreover the virtual machine does not provide a good 3D graphics emulation to run any modern game...... so its best that you dual boot..
     
    dextrorotatrix, Nov 12, 2009
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    From my experience if you wanted to go back through the recovery disks I have created 1 partition NTFS 10gb and then take the remainder of your HDD space devided in half and create a FAT32 partition and then the remainder either NTFS of FAT32 to have your spare partition. Then loading recovery disks was a breeze! I tried this tonight and seemed to work fine for me. But I will see if I can get my hands on a Win7 computer and see how it works.
     
    joblow, Nov 12, 2009
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    A 10 gb partition is not sufficient for W7 IMO...... apart from the OS itself you need space for applications.... Office , a few games perhaps.....
     
    dextrorotatrix, Nov 13, 2009
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    You are better off with a dual install.
     
    surfasb, Nov 13, 2009
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