[PLUG] Installing Kubuntu in VMware on XP

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard C Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net> writes:

Richard> I have space on my XP laptop to load VMware Server (which I
Richard> have done), and want to try different versions of Linux on it
Richard> starting with Kubuntu.  Has anyone done this?

Richard> The laptop is an Acer Aspire 1640Z with a 1.7 GHz Pentium M
Richard> and 1 GB of RAM. I accepted the defaults when I created the
Richard> virtual machine: 512 MB memory, 8 GB Max hard disk, bridged
Richard> Ethernet.

Richard> What things will I wish I had know after I've started?

I've just started playing with virtualization, and it occurs to me
that since client-bridging on wireless is a bit of a hack when/if it
works, it might be a problem to get network access via your host
system's wireless.  I haven't tried it, so I don't know it won't work,
but I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't or if it behaves in
unexpected ways.  Nat'ing through your host system (if that's even
possible) should work fine.

In my case, I am using linux/kvm and running windows (not my choice, i
assure you) on top.  W2k's pinball works surprisingly well, even
tunneled over ssh to my desktop.


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