12.04 32bit server: should i install "GRUB bootloader when installing as VM in VMPlayer?"

[Rajeev Prasad]

From: Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com>
To: Rajeev Prasad <rp.neuli at yahoo.com>; "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: 12.04 32bit server: should i install "GRUB bootloader when installing as VM in VMPlayer?"
 
On 13 June 2012 04:02, Rajeev Prasad <rp.neuli at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> i do not want to end up with a messed up host, so i want to ask this quick
> question: should i respond "yes" to setup question:
>
> install the GRUB to master boot record? i already have pointsec installed on
> my laptop which starts before anything boots up on my PC>
>
> my install is waiting....

Probably not - Pointsec will be sitting in the MBR already so if you
answer yes, you'll overwrite Pointsec meaning you'll need to be able
to re-install it if you want to boot into your encrypted windows
partition.

Are you, by any chance, installing on a company laptop and trying to
slide in a dual-boot install beside an existing Windows installation?
If you are, I'd be exceptionally careful if I were you...

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hello Steve,


I am installing ubuntu server as a VM in vmplayer. per your caution, i 
did not install GRUB, now i am not able to boot into this VM image. I am able to boot into windows xp fine.

to rephrase:



pc has pointsec -> win xp is the os -> i have vmplayer installed -> inside this vmplayer, i want to install ubuntu server as a VM.

during this installation it is asking me whether it should install GRUB on MBR or not?   and i am not sure....
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