Dual boot XP and Kubuntu?

[SteveRiley]

Indeed it is. And each app even receives its own button in the KDE launcher bar, too.

What you see in the command prompt below is the result of enabling shared folders. I configured the VM to expose my host's /home/steve subdirectory to the guest as linux. When the VM boots, the Player mounts the share under \\vmware-host\shared folders. Can also map a drive letter to it.

[Snowhog]

That, is just damn COOL! I saw this 'capability' on a Mac Airbook. Having a Windows app running 'on the Linux Desktop' is the way it should be.

[SteveRiley]

Wow! That sounds neat! I see I will have to give WMWare a look. I used to run it but I got tired of it setting up pseudo networks even before the DE installed.

Behold:



Networking in VMware Player is a pretty simple affair now, if you use bridged rather than NAT (NAT is the default):

[GreyGeek]

Sounds like you might have better results if you install Kubuntu on the hardware and then run XP inside a virtual machine. Just yesterday, in fact, I installed the latest VMware Player (free download) on my Precise laptop and then set up an XP virtual machine (*). VMware's Unity feature (not to be confused with Ubuntu's Unity interface) is really quite neat: Windows programs run on the desktop right next to Linux programs, they share a clipboard, and you can even drag-drop from one to the other -- something that Oracle's VirtualBox can't do.

Wow! That sounds neat! I see I will have to give WMWare a look. I used to run it but I got tired of it setting up pseudo networks even before the DE installed.

.... I gave the VM only one CPU core, 1 GB RAM, and 10 GB disk. And boy does XP fly! It's soooooo much faster than Windows 7. I hadn't touched XP since the days of Vista beta.

I have a CD of XP SP2, which I installed on my old Sony three years ago using VirtualBox. When I got this new Acer 7739 I imported that VB XP guest OS. I dual boot this Acer with Win7, which I haven't run in over a month, and when I do it is only to get updates, patches and AV dat file from MS Security Essentials. However, my XP as a guest OS in VB on Kubuntu Precise (1 CPU, 1 GB, 16GB HD, dynamic) is probably 30-40% faster than the native Win7 on this box.

[SteveRiley]

Sounds like you might have better results if you install Kubuntu on the hardware and then run XP inside a virtual machine. Just yesterday, in fact, I installed the latest VMware Player (free download) on my Precise laptop and then set up an XP virtual machine (*). VMware's Unity feature (not to be confused with Ubuntu's Unity interface) is really quite neat: Windows programs run on the desktop right next to Linux programs, they share a clipboard, and you can even drag-drop from one to the other -- something that Oracle's VirtualBox can't do.

As for using a USB to install Kubuntu, it's well-documented.

(*) Why XP? My need for keeping Windows around continues to diminish. However, my new PSP Vita requires a stupid "content manager" app (Windows and Mac only) to transfer movies and music; unlike the old PSP, which simply appeared as a USB drive, the new one relies on a bastardized implementation of MTP. So I still need a Windows VM for a few things. I have no need for something as convoluted as Windows 7. I gave the VM only one CPU core, 1 GB RAM, and 10 GB disk. And boy does XP fly! It's soooooo much faster than Windows 7. I hadn't touched XP since the days of Vista beta.

I would like to dual boot XP and Kubuntu. I would like to run an Apache web server, too. Would it be worth it to keep XP, or should I just blow it. How can I burn an ISO to a USB drive with no extra programs installed?