VM Player Hack

[phatboy]

I came across this the other day, if anyone is interested in trying out another OS and not wanting to wipe their PC to do so. Its a pretty good how to, you can substitute WinXP with Fedora, Ubuntu or whatever.

http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2005/10/26/vmware-player-windows-xp.html

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h55/phatboy30906/Desktop-1.jpg

Running WinXP Pro SP2 with Windows XP Pro SP1 in VM. This will allow me to test software and if it screws everything up I havent lost anything. You can make multiple copies of the VMDK so you can just copy it over whenever you want, I will set up a fedora one and post some pics of it too.

[MAJ Havoc]

What about XP Home, SP2?

[phatboy]

Anything you have an OS for, it will boot to CD just like a 'real' pc. I am going to do the fedora one next, I just want to make sure I have the latest and greatest.

The good thing is that it sees the network and all as a generic connection, so there arent any driver issues with NIC, Video, modem and so forth.

[phatboy]

Here is a screen shot with Ubuntu and XP running, on XP....

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h55/phatboy30906/Desktop2.jpg