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Can You Run A Linux Os Within Vmware ?

where the vmware player is running on windows XP?

5 Comments

  1. tahon50 wrote:

    Yes. You can even get ready built Vmware Linux appliances. These are Vmware images that are ready to go. See: http://vmware.com/appliances

    Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 10:40 am | Permalink
  2. Bada Bing wrote:

    Yes. VMware works great with just about any OS out there. Make sure you have some strong hardware to support the needs of the OS’s. So far I have ran Server, 2k3 with exchange, SUSE Linux, XP Pro and many others at the same time with it.
    Good Luck

    Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 1:30 pm | Permalink
  3. Hot Cherry wrote:

    Yes, vmware has instituted the ease of running more than 1 os , designed to integrate windows/linux os.
    Windows Emulators for Linux: VMware, Win4Lin Face Off
    Windows emulation software gives Linux desktop users the ability to run those “must-have” Windows programs. Computerworld community member Charles Bushong takes contenders VMware and Win4Lin for a test run — and picks a winner.
    (The only thing you need to be concerned with is choosing the right linux os that is compatible, and knowing how to install and operate your new linux os.)
    Good Luck.

    Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 4:23 pm | Permalink
  4. Ivan R wrote:

    Hello,
    (ANS) The answer is definitely YES! you can literally run any operating system within vmware provided your system has enough memory, CPU Power to drive it, and a good generous hard disk space.
    **It would probably run windows Vista better than if Vista was installed on normal hardware too? :-)
    Ivan

    Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 10:50 pm | Permalink
  5. captain3 wrote:

    Yes,to confirm above answers.Also check out Virtualbox a brilliant freeware & one I have used to run many Linux distros within Windows.http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

    Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 11:45 pm | Permalink

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