Who Needs Dual Booting?
Not I said the fly. I took my main box, the gaming box and threw Ubuntu on it. The only down side, it’s hard to play some of the games that I have. After all, games are the main reason why I have an Nvidia 6600GT. At the same time I know that my wife is not acustom to Linux and need to give her some familiarity (even though Ubuntu does a great job on it’s own.)
So I have two problems, I want to game and my wife still needs Windows. The gaming part will take care of itself via Wine or Cadega so I wasn’t too worreid about that. But for windows, I didn’t want to dual boot. Having dual booted in the past I know it can be a pain at times. Well, fire up VMWare and off we go. I now have a Windows XP VM running on my box just for my wife. The best part is that I experienced no lag! Running service packs on the Windows VM and playing some games on the host gave me no problems. God I love virtualization.
Oh, and as for my wife. To my surprise she was found everything in Ubuntu on her own. I didn’t show her how to check her email, browse the web, or type a note. It was so intuitive that she is off and running like a pro. *Sniff* That’s my wife.
Look for the free VM Player, baby… it’s where it’s at… (well, and a few other tools you can Google for, like QEMU to create blank VMDK files).
No one needs to dual boot again…
Isn’t that what I said I did?