Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.
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Nuno Magalhães 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
>
I like to use virtualbox for my VM's, but games from within VM's can be
tricky, are the games high spec? something like crossover for linux
might be more suitable.
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