2008-07-08, 10:03 AM
Idiotversion Wrote:I think you should add a warning or something in there about Vista users. I use Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 and I tried to use VMware to run a copy of Ubuntu, and to my amazement it actually worked fine. The problem, though, is when I restarted. I got a BSoD during the loading of the operating system. After searching the Internet on a different computer I found that VMware messed with the USB drivers and loading the operating system with anything plugged into a USB port will result in a BSoD. I removed all my USB devices and Vista then loaded fine. An uninstallation of VMware fixed the problem.
Anyway, I don't know if it is a problem with all copies of Vista or if it's random, but the fact that others had the same problem proves that it is not just my computer.
Edit - Then again, I was doing all this about a month ago, so maybe the problem has been fixed.
VMware has plenty of options you can eliminate from VMs. Who wants sound, DVD, Floppy, USB, on a compy you'll only use for MS? Just disable everything that you won't need so it won't conflict with your host machine. The purpose of this topic is to help people use VMware for their mules, instead of using a 2nd PC. Of course, this can only be done on a performance PC, not on some single core family PC for browsing the internet only.
At least, you must have a Multi-Core system, like Intel Core 2 Duo/Quad/Extreme (haven't tested using AMDs), a good AGP/PCI-Ex graphics card (not on-board), and 2 GB of RAM. It might work in anything lower but at the cost of severe performance drop.