[Techtalk] gaming setup

[Augustina Blair]

There are also issues installing/setting up VMWare on Ubuntu.  I had a
problem when I installed it awhile back where I had to edit one of the
header files even after running the any-any-update patch.  You can find
instructions here - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware/Workstation



On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Rudy Zijlstra <
rudy at grumpydevil.homelinux.org> wrote:

> Op maandag 26-01-2009 om 09:03 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef Natalee
> Thomason:
> > Has anybody tried running Vista as the guest OS through VMWare on a
> > Linux host for games? I tried
> > installing spiderwick chronicles and the hobbit using wine on Kubuntu
> > 8.10 ( intrepid ) with no success. I ended up installing Vista as the
> > host OS and then using VMWare to run Kubuntu for everything else
> > non-gaming. Just wondering if anybody had tried it...
>
> Sigh... investigated this for different reason. Could not get VMware to
> run on Debian, so i started using KVM. Now i have XP running on Debian
> in a KVM virutal machine.
>
> Was not willing to at short notice investigate Ubuntu, which *is*
> supported by VMWare.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rudy
>
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