Running Ubuntu and XP as virtual machines in Vista Business.

Virtual machines are fun! This is my first time trying them and I like it so far. Anyways, I got both XP and Ubuntu installed as virtual machines on my desktop which is running Vista Business. I do have a question about the XP setup though:

Is there a way to install drivers for you physical graphics card instead of the virtual machine's software graphics card?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

Sorry I don't have an answer for your question. But I have a question for you.. I'd like to setup a VM on my laptop which is running Vista Home Premium now. I'd like to have it run Ubuntu and XP as well, how do I go about doing that? Are there any good articles that could point me into the right direction?

Thanks.

 

No, you can't. Virtual machines cannot get graphics acceleration... it's part of it being a "virtual machine". Everything's virtual, network, USB, mouse, keyboard, and even the graphics card. There's some development into sharing the graphics card with a virtual machine, but as of now, there's no way that I know of. It'd mean giving the virtual machine direct unfettered access to hardware, which kind of makes having a virtual machine pointless.

 

I haven't seen any good articles. For me it was just trial and error, it really wasn't too difficult. I am not positive either, but I think you can only run VM in Vista Business and Ultimate, and XP Pro.

Also, your mouse will not work with Ubuntu as there is some issue in Ubuntu that can't recognize the mouse properly, which means you have to do everything with a keyboard. This is what I read about a little bit online. Just reading and searching google until I figured out how to get things working. XP was a piece of cake to install.

Good point. Just wondering. I wanted to be able to run games in the VM of XP that weren't running in Vista right (although I haven't had any problems yet). Dual booting is nice, but it would be great to be able to switch into XP from Vista in a few seconds, rather than going through the whole shut down reboot process.

 

It is virual only there is no set up for any physical hardware or software that is runiing on ur pc yes u can find update of VM to accelrate ur graphic.

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