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    Virtualization V64 w/ Fedora as guest

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by MonsterMaxx, Sep 20, 2007.

  1. MonsterMaxx

    MonsterMaxx Notebook Evangelist

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    My new lappy will be here tomorrow and I want to get off to installing OSs.

    It will need
    XP
    Vista64
    Linux

    Normally I'd just multi boot this, but I was wondering if I can use Vista64 as the host and virtualize (is that a word?) Fedora.
    I can't do that with XP, need it native for a pig of a CAD app, but doing it with Linux would be terrific.
    So XP & V64 would be dual boot native and Fedora would be soft under V64.

    Is this possible? Which virtualizer (real word?) would I need? Seems like M$s won't have anything to do with Linux. Or at least I couldn't find it in the docs. And VMware is scanty on docs too.
     
    MonsterMaxx, Sep 20, 2007
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  2. Alemaker

    Alemaker Notebook Consultant

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    VMWare will do it for ya, and VPC(MSFT) will too now.although nix can be tricky cuzza native screen res's but have had ubuntu runnin, fedora runnin, all in virtual.
     
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  3. s1ay

    s1ay Notebook Enthusiast

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    Windows Virtual PC will do linux but not well as you have to jack with it in console and turn down the color in fedora s it dosn't support 24 bit color. Also I'd just stay away from that thing its crap.

    Now VMWare is a god for that in my opinion and has a VMWare to run just on Linux to emulate whatever. It supports everything I've seen so far. I've even seen a PS2 emulator written to work in VMWare! Keep in mind that fedora is basically red hat and most Linux releases will run under one of the generic kernel options. Ushaly it dosnt even matter I find. Though I've yet to figure Gentoo out... Thats what I'll be putting on my lappy once i get it. I like the idea of compiling your kernel for your PC. Performance is good!

    PS: Thats the Workstation ACE edition, but the free one named "Server" or something has all those also. Just lacks some nice features, that aren't needed.
     

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