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Markeh
13-10-2009, 05:53 PM
I'm wondering about running an OS inside an OS (I can't remember the technical name, sorry, I'm a bit thick today :D).

What does it involve, is it worth doing, what do I need, will it cost me, and which OS's can this be done with?

And will my laptop (HP dv6-1210sa) do it?
AMD Dual Core QL-65 (2.1Ghz)
3Gb RAM
Vista Premium
250Gb HDD
BoyBetterKnow
13-10-2009, 05:59 PM
I'm wondering about running an OS inside an OS (I can't remember the technical name, sorry, I'm a bit thick today :D).

What does it involve, is it worth doing, what do I need, will it cost me, and which OS's can this be done with?

And will my laptop (HP dv6-1210sa) do it?
AMD Dual Core QL-65 (2.1Ghz)
3Gb RAM
Vista Premium
250Gb HDD

Virtual OS?
Laggings
13-10-2009, 06:04 PM
I don't know exactly how, but I know a mac that runs windows inside of it.

You need to load up the original OS, install another one inside it, and click the link within the base OS to get into the secondary OS.
Flisker
13-10-2009, 06:17 PM
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6&displaylang=en

Microsoft Virtual PC.
Markeh
13-10-2009, 06:34 PM
I'm gonna be honest, I still don't properly understand it. Will it cost me?

And is it worth doing?

I'd like to be able to run XP or Mac OSX from within Vista, if I can.
The Professor
13-10-2009, 06:54 PM
Idk about OSX but you can certainly run XP from inside vista. Although if you have the time to play around with virtualising it you may as well just install it on a separate partition!
Laggings
13-10-2009, 07:08 PM
Create a new partition and install another OS there?
Recursion
13-10-2009, 07:39 PM
You can run OS X within Windows but only using VMWare and it is slow and buggy and you have to hack it in to make it work.

You can get a free program, www.virtualbox.org, install it, run it and then create a Virtual Machine, you can then install XP from an ISO or an XP install disk, this way the only cost to you is the XP license.
alexxxxx
14-10-2009, 05:42 PM
you could run a linux in it for free though.
Recursion
14-10-2009, 06:01 PM
True dat, I run Ubuntu in mine.
Metric1
14-10-2009, 06:02 PM
I believe it's called VMWareFusion or something like that..
Recursion
14-10-2009, 06:15 PM
Read the first page ;)
Markeh
14-10-2009, 08:23 PM
OK, I'd like to use VirtualBox and run Linux, but I'm not sure which version to use, and which versions will have compatible drivers for my machine.

I'd like one that enables me to connect to the internet, and is not too big on space. Ideally one similar to the ones they use in netbooks would be nice.
Tomm
14-10-2009, 08:33 PM
My personal preference is VMWare Workstation but you can't legally get it for free ;)
Recursion
14-10-2009, 08:56 PM
They all do the same thing, www.virtualbox.com and go to the downloads page... just click the Windows one.
Markeh
14-10-2009, 09:12 PM
again I ask, I've decided on Virtualbox using Linux.
What version of Linux is best to use?

I wanna use one that they use on netbooks if possible.
Recursion
14-10-2009, 09:29 PM
Get Ubuntu, and next time word your questions more clearly ;)
Zokoli
20-10-2009, 07:35 PM
Marky, use;
Ubuntu - my preferred choice
OR
Feodora

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