{"id":632,"date":"2010-10-25T01:01:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T06:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=632"},"modified":"2010-10-18T15:02:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T20:02:05","slug":"vmware-player-and-ubuntu-on-win-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2010\/10\/vmware-player-and-ubuntu-on-win-xp\/","title":{"rendered":"VMWare Player and Ubuntu on Win XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>I have a virtual machine running on a Windows XP laptop computer with Ubuntu Linux running in the virtual machine. This is all using WMware&#8217;s WMware Player.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had a problem at work where I needed a Linux-based computer to run a test. To be candid, I first saw this as an opportunity to buy yet another computer at work and load Linux. An administrator suggested I look at\u00a0VMware Player from <a href=\"http:\/\/vmware.com\">VMware<\/a>. I tried it, and it all worked.<\/p>\n<p>First, I\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.vmware.com\/d\/info\/desktop_downloads\/vmware_player\/3_0\">downloaded VMware Player from this site<\/a>. I downloaded version 3.1.2. I had to first create an account on VMware, and that was simple.\u00a0I did this on a Dell Latitude laptop running MS Windows XP Pro Version 2002 Service Pack 3.<\/p>\n<p>Next, I downloaded Ubuntu Server 10.04. I downloaded a special image for WMware Player from the thought police site (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thoughtpolice.co.uk\/vmware\">http:\/\/www.thoughtpolice.co.uk\/vmware<\/a>).<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: small;\">Now I installed everything:<\/span><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Start the VMware Player<\/li>\n<li>Create a New Virtual Machine &#8211; I point to the Unbuntu that I downloaded (ubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-i386.iso)<\/li>\n<li>40 GByte disk size, SPlit virtual disk into multiple files<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Then the install was complete and up comes Ubuntu. The installer created a folder on the PC at:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>C:\\Documents and Settings\\dwayne.phillips\\My Documents\\My Virtual Machines\\Ubuntu<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>with many small files.<\/p>\n<p>And there you have it. Here is an image from my computer showing Ubuntu running in a virtual machine. Inside Ubuntu I am running Firefox, Gimp, and a terminal window. I am surprised how easy this was. Great.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/vmplayer-window.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-642\" title=\"vmplayer-window\" src=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/vmplayer-window-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>(click on the image to enlarge)<\/p>\n<p>Now I am ready to run some Linux-based tests, at least I think I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I have a virtual machine running on a Windows XP laptop computer with Ubuntu Linux running in the virtual machine. This is all using WMware&#8217;s WMware Player. I had a problem at work where I needed a Linux-based computer to run a test. To be candid, I first saw this as an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,3],"tags":[161,126],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-technology","tag-linux","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}