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Title: portable-ubuntu-runs-ubuntu-inside-windows
Post by: somanyholes on Jul 21, 2009, 08:06:14

No Vmware...

Awesome!

http://lifehacker.com/5195999/portable-ubuntu-runs-ubuntu-inside-windows#pager

Title: Re: portable-ubuntu-runs-ubuntu-inside-windows
Post by: Rik on Jul 21, 2009, 10:04:30

Now for one that runs Windows inside Ubuntu and Ubuntu inside Windows simultaneously. ;)

Title: Re: portable-ubuntu-runs-ubuntu-inside-windows
Post by: somanyholes on Jul 21, 2009, 10:09:09

while scratching it's bum. ;D

Title: Re: portable-ubuntu-runs-ubuntu-inside-windows
Post by: Rik on Jul 21, 2009, 10:10:24

And making breakfast. ;D

Title: Re: portable-ubuntu-runs-ubuntu-inside-windows
Post by: D-Dan on Jul 21, 2009, 11:45:05

This looks so cool - grabbing it to test right now :) Maybe I can avoid the dual booting after this.

Steve

Title: Re: portable-ubuntu-runs-ubuntu-inside-windows
Post by: somanyholes on Jul 21, 2009, 15:29:50

QuoteThis looks so cool - grabbing it to test right now Smiley Maybe I can avoid the dual booting after this.

how are you finding it? I really just use linux for terminal related stuff and it's working really well :) Are you doing more gui intensive stuff?

Title: Re: portable-ubuntu-runs-ubuntu-inside-windows
Post by: D-Dan on Jul 21, 2009, 16:14:57

I'm not - doesn't run on 64 bit systems it seems (it tries to start a driver which fails to start here. I'm guessing it's written for 32 bit Windows). I've emailed them to see if there's a 64 bit version.

Steve

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