Ubuntu via VMware

Posted by Greybeard on Mar 25th, 2010 in Local, Technology and Music | 1 comment

I’m now writing this post on Ubuntu running on a VMware virtual machine.   First impressions,   I think I still prefer XP,   but I’ll continue to play around with Ubuntu.   So far I’ve had no problems with Ubuntu’s internet access,   and it’s running “nat’ed ” through the Windows connection.  I’m not sure what kind of resources Ubuntu really wants,  it doesn’t get anything to generous as a virtual machine,  and it’s speed probably suffers.  Also consider,  I’m running a pretty old version of VMware.  I wonder how my laptop would do running Ubuntu.  It’s an older Toshiba,  1 Ghz processor, and 512mb’s of Ram?

At any rate,  Firefox is running pretty well right now and I’m able to get to web sites via XP and Chrome,  or Ubuntu and Firefox.   It’s nice to be back online!  Sure wish I could figure out what hosed IE-8 ?



One Response to “Ubuntu via VMware”

1. Borepatch says:

   March 26, 2010 at 7:40 am

   You should do fine on native Ubuntu. I ran a config like that for 3 years before the current Borepatch supercomputer cluster.

   I do find that Firefox on Ubuntu starts to hogg memory, so I kill the process and restart it every day. Firefox restores all my tabs, so no harm done.