Install Linux in a Windows 7 virtual machine...

Linux Guest file System

Don't you have to have a disk formatted in ext3 or ext4 to install a Linux Guest?

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Bill Bos said:
Don't you have to have a disk formatted in ext3 or ext4 to install a Linux Guest?

Bill Bos
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No, it is done from a Virtual Hard Drive which is just a vary large single file that can be easily deleted or moved to another system for access and backup.

This way, each machine can have it's own IP, and they will be network-able.. Perhaps I should start a new thread...
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I am not familiar with VMWare Server,, (however I will be as I will be trying it out)
You should be able to do exactly that. In VBox and VPC it can be done. No Reason why I can think of that VMWare Server should not.

However, I use VBox as a Portable App, which is great to be able to run Vmachines off an external HDD from any system I hook it up to. For more info. This is just the launcher, but it will download and install VBox to it's proper location automatically. If it sounds interesting, I recommend a try out. Does come in very handy.

Oh yeah,, the other really nice thing about this is, you can have it install both 32bit and 64bit versions of VBox Portable so you can run it on either system..
 
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Tepid:

Thanks, that is what I wanted to know.

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I run VMware server 2.02 (free!) on my win7 64. Had some issues installing, however it was worth the hassle. I can install just about any OS in there. Running Ubuntu linux in one now...
 

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Install VMware Server on Windows 7

Slurp812:

This is interesting. You arent supposed to be able to install VMware Server on Windows 7. See this thread on the VMware Forum:

VMware Communities: VMware Server 2 on Windows 7 Host ...

See the posts by Astorin and Pablo in this thread

If you have found a proceedure that works for installing VMware Server on Windows 7, you should document it and post the procedure to make it available to everyone.

Vertual PC and Virtual Box do the same thing as VMware Server. There is no problem installing them. Still the installation of VMware Server would be interesting.

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Tepid said:
However, I use VBox as a Portable App, which is great to be able to run Vmachines off an external HDD from any system I hook it up to. For more info. This is just the launcher, but it will download and install VBox to it's proper location automatically. If it sounds interesting, I recommend a try out. Does come in very handy.

Oh yeah,, the other really nice thing about this is, you can have it install both 32bit and 64bit versions of VBox Portable so you can run it on either system..
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Is the vBox program portable or is it the launcher that you carry around so you can install vbox anywhere?
 

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Also have a Dell GX520 Desktop now acting as a server. P4 3.0GHz HT, 1GB DDR2, 40gb OS, 1tb data, 200gb data, 250gb backup. Only access is through remote desktop.
The whole thing is portable. Just download the launcher and run it, then follow the instructions,, put it all on a external drive (you will need the space of an external drive) and you are good to go.

The VM's will be under the data folder.
 

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Awesome. I will have to do that asap.
How is performance on a flash drive? I would imagine it would be better than an external hdd.
 

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Worth a mention is that VMWare Player 3.x can now create Virtual machines, run's on Windows 7 and is completely free. It's what I use...as I'm all VMWare at work and I enjoy the consistency between products. If I wasn't using VMWare at home, it would be Virtual Box.
 

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chuck07 said:
Awesome. I will have to do that asap.
How is performance on a flash drive? I would imagine it would be better than an external hdd.
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You don't want to use a Thumb Drive. They are not big enough, nor really fast enough. The smallest External Drive I would go with is about 250G.

A very large, fast thumb drive might suffice for one VM. You can always try it.

Off external, I have run 3 VM's on a fairly low end system (P4 3Ghz and 1.5G ram) with minimal sluggishness.
 

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Bill Bos said:
Slurp812:

This is interesting. You arent supposed to be able to install VMware Server on Windows 7. See this thread on the VMware Forum:

VMware Communities: VMware Server 2 on Windows 7 Host ...

See the posts by Astorin and Pablo in this thread

If you have found a proceedure that works for installing VMware Server on Windows 7, you should document it and post the procedure to make it available to everyone.

Vertual PC and Virtual Box do the same thing as VMware Server. There is no problem installing them. Still the installation of VMware Server would be interesting.

Bill Bos
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I did have some issues. I had had to install it twice as administrator. Install, (reboot) remove, (reboot) then re-install. I wish I could remember more. sorry :(. I also have to use IE8 to be able to launch a console window.
 

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Actually, I like vmware 3.2 a lot better than virtualbox. And virtual pc sucks more than anything. I've had no problems installing a number of OS's in vmware player. (From DOS 6.22 to Ubuntu). It's fast and everything, to this point seems to work well.
 

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Isn't the latest vmware player at 3.1?
 

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Airbot said:
Isn't the latest vmware player at 3.1?
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OOPS! My mistake. Yes, current version is 3.1. I still thin it's better than ms virtual pc or virtualbox. Everything just seems to work well.
 

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Ubuntu can install on your box and run "as a program". No need to re-part or install a bootloader.
 

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Rick Green said:
Ubuntu can install on your box and run "as a program". No need to re-part or install a bootloader.
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True, or it will run reasonably well as a portable OS on most systems if you create a bootable flash drive from the live CD image.
 
VirtualBox for the win... even if just for the graphics aceleration... from a long time linux geek!
 

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madtownidiot said:
Rick Green said:
Ubuntu can install on your box and run "as a program". No need to re-part or install a bootloader.
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True, or it will run reasonably well as a portable OS on most systems if you create a bootable flash drive from the live CD image.
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I have done this with Fedora. Problem was that every time I rebooted it, I had to start from scratch because none of my settings and my work were kept on the flash drive. So it was nice for experimenting but not really useful for any decent work.
 

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VMware player runs linux well also. Lately, I've found vmware to be, probably, the best virtual platform.

Musiclover7:
Sounds like you need an iso for whatever OS your trying to install. I usually use a virtual cd/dvd to mount my iso from. Makes installing a bit faster, at least it seems so.
 

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