Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:12:09 +0000
"Nuno Magalhães" <morceguinho@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings, enjoy your breakfast.
>
> I have a 20GB partiiton with an OS that i seldom ever use. When i do,
> it's to play games. My board's an Asus M2NPV-VM which has an onboard
> nVidia GeForce 6150. The thing is i'm gonna repartition and reformat
> the system, so i'm considering getting rid of that OS but...
>
> Using virtual machines and emulators isn't unheard of, what i want to
> know is how and how good. Can i have a full Debian system running XP
> kinda like a chroot? Like running in a window in the desktop? What
> would i use? VMWare? Would that involve installing XP sepparately in
> its own partition or having it installed on top of Debian? I want to
> have the OS installed somehow, not emulated like with wine or
> something.
>
> Since the purpose is to play games, would it actually work? I have 2GB
> RAM and an Athlon 64 3500+ (2.2GHz), i think it's enough.
>
> Thanks in advance for your enlightened constructive input.
> Nuno
>
Virtual machines are good but not VMWare. I suggest a hypervisor type VM like Xen. They usually provide better performance than VMWare in general. Or try looking at the built in technology in the kernel (KVM).
Like the other poster said Wine is also a very good choice.
Good luck,
Amit
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