Creating a Windows VM Inside Ubuntu

[Mark Haney]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:42 PM, P. Echols <p.echo926 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 2 November 2015 at 12:35, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I am a bit stumped:
>> >
>> > A friend of mine just graduated from Graphics Design school. Of course,
>> all
>> > design schools teach Adobe products only (Photosop, InDesing, etc.) -
>> god
>> > forbid any Open Source alternatives...
>> >
>> > Putting *that* discussion aside....
>> >
>> > A few days ago he came to me and said "I am sick of this POS OS"
>> (referring
>> > to Windows  8.1 installed on his super charged Asus laptop). "i'd like
>> you
>> > to install Ubuntu on my laptop, but I need to be able to use Adobe and
>> my PC
>> > games on it."
>> >
>> > I tried to install his (legal) Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 by following a
>> > tutorial, but all the menus were mangled and distorted and I was afraid
>> he
>> > will encounter problems in the future.
>> >
>> > So I had an idea of installing his Windows as a Headless VM so he can
>> run it
>> > only when he needs to work on Adobe or play the games that cannot be
>> > installed on Ubuntu. I need your advice:
>> >
>> > How to do it as painless as possible?
>> > Should I use KVM or Virtualbox?
>>
>>
>>
As someone who gets asked this *a lot*, here's my $0.02.

Running PC games in a virtual machine, no matter how beefy the system is,
will never perform as well as it would be on a native Windows install.
Trust me, I have a dual 8-core server with 64GB of RAM and AMD SLI video
cards and running modern games on it in a VM is just not all that great.
As this is a laptop, it will run WAY too hot for gaming and not really
recommended.

That said, I'm in agreement that if he wants Ubuntu on that laptop, he'll
need to migrate to tools that aren't Adobe related.  I would suggest
setting up that laptop as dual boot. And have him upgrade to Win10. It's
WAY better than 8.1 and should help him not be quite so frustrated.

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