Run your EXISTING Windows Installation on Ubuntu with Vmware Player

[Derek Broughton]

mtyoung wrote:

> This is (IMHO) the Holy Grail for winning converts to Linux.

Much as I'm trying to do this, I really don't think it's a Holy Grail.  If
you make it possible to use the old system, you don't get much conversion.

> Image a small business dedicated to adding a new hard drive and Ubuntu
> (fully loaded with codecs of course) to people's old PCs with Windows,
> and giving them an easy migration path. It's cheaper than a new PC
> 
> Like many of you on this list, I've grown tired of dual booting, and
> really just want to boot Ubuntu. But, there are several apps I probably
> won't be able to replace for some time. So, I also want is to be able to
> run XP in a virtual machine under Ubuntu.
> 
> It finally appears thats there's a way to do this.
> 
> I haven't tried this yet, but I'd like to hear what you have to say
> about it.

I have, I couldn't figure out how to do it purely with VMPlayer, and I am
having trouble installing VMWare-server (it says there's already an
installation, which there isn't and never has been)
> 
> If you read digg or reddit, please vote this up so it can reach a larger
> audience.
> 
>http://digg.com/linux_unix/Run_Your_Existing_Windows_Installation_on_Ubuntu_with_Vmware_Player

What is it with "digg" and VMWare?  I'd never even heard of digg until I
started googling for vmware stuff, and now practically every link is via
digg.

Anyway, the article looks pretty good, but almost useless for me :-(  It
will only work for IDE drives.  SATA drives are a more awkward beast.  
-- 
derek