Installing Vista in VMware on Ubuntu

peeterpaul@motskula.net (Peeter P. Mõtsküla) — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

After several failures and a lot of web browsing, I finally succeeded in installing Windows Vista Business in VMware Server running on Ubuntu 6.10.
At first, I just created a new VMware virtual machine with default settings for guest OS Windows Vista (experimental). Booted it from Vista DVD, answered a couple of questions, entered the product key, started the installation and got as far as “Expanding files (0%)”. On the next morning, the installer was still expanding files at 0% (the process had not crashed, it just failed to do anything useful).

HOWTO leave your computer

peeterpaul@motskula.net (Peeter P. Mõtsküla) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Joel Spolsky thinks that Choices = Headaches, discussing the OFF button in Windows Vista with its 7 choices and 2+n ways to access these choices.

The 7 choices are Sleep, Hibernate, Lock, Switch User, Logout, Restart, and Shut Down. By the way, I’ve got the same choices on my Ubuntu Linux.

If you’ve spoken to a non-geek recently, you may have noticed that they have no idea what the difference is between “sleep” and “hibernate.” They could be trivially merged. One option down.

Vista on @ppmotskula

Installing Vista in VMware on Ubuntu

HOWTO leave your computer