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Originally Posted by jperez2009 View Post
Yeah, VMWare is good and I've used it before, but of course, it probably is much better since I last used it. I'd use Linux on my PC, but I don't want to ruin the XP install I have going on at the moment. I will when I get a new, separate hard drive for it. I have my 500GB external, but it's only for storage (I use WAY too much disk space).

When I have the chance to actually try it out on this hardware beast (since my laptop is nowhere near good enough to run XP via VMWare due to it's crappy chipset, CPU, RAM and graphics card), I'll try to see if the online games I play work on it. Last time, they didn't. Maybe this time they will...and hopefully so will The Sims 3. I love that game! *-*

Jesse~

Well all you have to do is use the conversion tool to convert your windows XP into a virtual machine. The tool to do this is also free from vmware

I initially did this, I used the vmware converter to make a copy of my running windows system onto my USB hard drive. I installed Linux on my USB 500GB Disk and booted in on my laptop to linux, leaving my internal laptop disk untouched. (Note I removed my internal hard drive during linux install on the USB drive, I didn't want grub on it)

This allows me to boot from my internal drive as normal, or from USB from the bios boot menu.

Anyway, so then you can boot to Linux and install vmware and run your current setup virtually and see how it runs, if it goes well, you can switch over.


All that said, I really don't know about gameplay, its not anything I have actually tried. I have been playing openarena with my kids
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