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Upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8 in a VMWare Virtual Machine

November 1, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

Though my main home PC runs Linux Mint, I do like to have the facility to use Windows software from time to time and virtualisation has allowed me to continue doing that. For a good while, it was a Windows [...]

Moving a Windows 7 VM from VirtualBox to VMware Player

October 14, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

Seeing how well Windows 8 was running in an VMware Player virtual machine and that was without installing VMware Tools in the guest operating system, I was reminded about how sluggish my Windows 7 VirtualBox VM had become. Therefore, I [...]

Removing VMware Player from Linux Mint Debian Edition

August 4, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

A whole slew of updates have appear for my Linux Mint Debian Edition PC. However, to instate them, I needed to remove VMware Player and this is the command to do so: sudo vmware-installer -u vmware-player It worked in my [...]

Installing VMware Player 4.04 on Linux Mint 13

July 15, 2012 2 Responses Shortlink

Curiosity about the Release Preview of Windows 8 saw me running into bother when trying to see what it’s like in a VirtualBox VM. While doing some investigations on the web, I saw VMware Player being suggested as an alternative. [...]

A little look at Windows 8

November 6, 2011 Leave a response Shortlink

It has been a little while but I have managed to set up a VirtualBox virtual machine in order to take a look at the Developer Preview of the next version of Windows, something that I and others continue to [...]

Seamless VirtualBox VM Application Windows on Ubuntu

Getting VirtualBox 2.02 working on Ubuntu 8.04

October 10, 2008 2 Responses Shortlink

Having run VirtualBox OSE (1.5.6) for a while now, I succumbed to the idea of grabbing the latest version from the VirtualBox website and putting it on my main Linux box. The idea of having 64-bit support proved irresistible and [...]

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