Sean Miller wrote: > Virtual machine is something like Sun's Virtualbox or VMWare. > > Virtualbox is, imho, better for running things like Linux. > > Some screenshots here... > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Screenshots > > Let's say you install Virtualbox on a Vista machine. You then go into > it and say "Create Virtual Machine", tell it how much memory to give > it and how much disk space. It then effectively boots into a BIOS > type screen and will say "no operating system installed", so you stick > in a Ubuntu CD, try it again and it'll hopefully install the operating > system. > > Once installed you open virtualbox, say "start virtual machine" and it > starts in a window. You can use the right-ctrl key and F together to > toggle between windowed and full screen. > > So if, for instance, you don't want to use Vista at all you just boot > into it, start the virtual machine and then do right-ctrl-F and forget > Vista is even there. > > But if you have a decent sized resolution better, maybe, to run the > Linux in a window - you should be able to cut and paste between the > two as well, I believe. > > Sean > > Hiya,
that sounds really interesting. I was just wondering, is there a version that will install on XP so I can run Ubuntu in that? Thank you for your help. John. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
