[CoLoCo] Preferred Hypervisor to run Windows

[Kevin Fries]

David is right, bridging and wireless is a problem regardless of the
host or guest OS.  As for the sound in VMWare, for some silly reason,
VMWare does not add a sound resource, at least it didn't for me.  Once I
adjusted the configuration and added a sound device, I get sound (VMWare
Server).

Here is a great resource for you to look at.  It demonstrates how to run
Windows full time in the background and run your windows apps along side
of your Linux apps as if they were native.

http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1238129,00.html


-  
Kevin Fries
Senior Linux Engineer
Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
A Division of Japan Communications Inc.


On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 06:50 -0600, David L. Willson wrote:
> What you probably want is to set your guest box(es) to NAT, rather than bridge, when
> you're wireless.  I don't think you're ever going to get that bridge to work on the
> wireless.  At least, I have never gotten mine to work that way.
> 
> > >  Hi everyone.  I've been spending the last couple weeks trying to get my
> > > Dell Latitude D830 laptop running Ubuntu 8.04 full time.  After running it
> > > Wubi style for a few weeks I realized that I would learn it better without
> > > the dual boot setup.  Unfortunately I need to have a working copy of XP or
> > > Vista for some corporate apps that don't run in Linux.  So off to the [UTF-8?]races�
> > > I first built the computer running Ubuntu and all the hardware works
> > > flawlessly.  I then gave VMware Workstation a try but couldn't get my
> > > wireless NIC to bridge Internet or my sound card to make a peep.  Same luck
> > > with Sun's VirtualBox and then the same when I tried VMware Server.  After
> > > scouring the Net to resolve the network issue I found this link (
> > > http://blog.creonfx.com/linux/how-to-install-vmware-player-workstation-on-2624-kernel)
> > > and tried rebuilding using the "vmware-any-any-update-116."  I also tried
> > > all the tips in the comment section but still no dice.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > So my question is [UTF-8?]this� Being new to this I would love a recommendation on
> > > the best/easiest/most stable hypervisor to run in Ubuntu.  And then if
> > > anyone has a suggestion on how I can get my configuration working I would be
> > > all ears.  I would hate to switch back to the Wubi install as I find it so
> > > helpful to run both operating systems at the same time.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Scott from Denver.
> > >
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> -- David
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