Linux with VMWARE Beryl XGL 3d Desktop - Music by Battles

Forgive the choppyness, unfortunately my capture software and re-encoding didnt do this justice. I dont think any video will do this laptop/GUI interface justice though...

This is my current Linux Box running Dream Linux and utilizing the XGL libraries for a TRUE 3D Desktop. I am running Beryl and XFCE for window management. I was originally dual booting windows XP, but why boot into windows XP when I can run VMWARE? So I setup the PC to run my TRUE WindowsXP install (on my other partition) through VMWARE player or workstation. This allows me the choice of booting to Windows XP, Linux, or booting Linux and running my XP install from inside. This is NOT a VMWARE disk copy of XP, this is the ACTUAL XP running from my other partition fully loaded with apps. Why waste space with a duplicate XP installed into a VMDisk when you can run the REAL thing? :o)

Took me a little while to set this up (all day on the weekend) but well worth it.

Soundtrack is a song by the band "battles"


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[djstoltz2000]

Okay so this might be a noob question but I've recently replaced Windows with Ubuntu Studio on my laptop, so if I use VMWare to install XP will I need to find drivers again? Or does VMWare use the drivers running Ubuntu? Also will I be able to use direct midi support within VMWare or will I have to use an external client such as MIDIRules? Thanks for any help, I'm a DJ but haven't been thoroughly impressed with the DJ apps for Linux and I want to try avoiding dual booting if possible :-)

[brainphreak]

You can probably do most dj stuff in a virtual machine, but I dont know if midi is supported in a VM. As for drivers, it will use the built in ubuntu drivers, but then you will install "vmware tools" which is a set of tools and drivers for ubuntu to run better on vmware. A good analogy is a physical computer, when you install windows without the drivers, windows gives it a generic crappy videos card driver for exampel. You cannot increase resolution but it works. Load the driver & gain functions

[usertogo]

This is great congrats, especially also on the little hidden consciousness enhancing political messages!

Regarding the capabilities of shown configuration, how likely do you consider it that you be able to run CAD applications or even Imersive Open Gl games on the windows part within linux and VM Ware?

[brainphreak]

you can run vmware on apple too. fusion is the name. Works better than parallels also. Better company too :oP

[brainphreak]

yes you point to the hard disk and boot the native install of windows on another partition (dual boot system), or you can just install windows from scratch into a new virtual machine and have the files inside linux, You have a full version of windows, you will have all capabilities but no 3d video card or anything. It is emulated hardware, so not the top of the line specs. Although now workstation DOES support some 3d directx stuff

[brainphreak]

haha didnt see this until now, you can use either, player is free. Workstation is good for a single user, server runs multiple at once. Hope you found what you needed.

[khlymore]

but witch one vmware server 2.0 beta or workstation?? and witch is better in your opinion??

[khlymore]

thats the truth THE POWER OF LINUX man is just unlimit was desapointed a litle bit since there is no existing virtual machine that can run a complete operating system my plan was to run mac os x leopard into a pc and then run parallels and then run windows and linux there so i can have finally the 3 64 bit operating system witch is the thing im trying to do right now

[khlymore]

really but how what you mean i choose a curren hardrive with windows installed to run inside vmware ? i though always that but the thing is will have all the capabilities??

[brainphreak]

with the latest version of vmware (6) you can simple create a new virtual machine and when asked to create a disk, just choose to use an existing partition. This should allow you to boot right into windows. Of course you can only boot to a single partition one time. So you can for example boot into the same partition you are running workstation from.