![]() but when it comes time to actually plan games (on my laptop) i boot into the windows partition. The reason is kinda strange, but on my mac, i like being able to use my windows VM to keep my steam updated, (fire on the vm, let steam run) in the background while im working on other things. what im hoping to accomplish here is to have both OS's as bootable, but be able to access each other as a VM as well ( similar to OSX bootcamp + VMware). Thanks for the input so far! i think running windows 7, with ubuntu running in it will be fine for most things. ![]() I can watch videos through my linux VMs and listen to music just fine with no problems. As for uBuntu in a VM, you should barely even notice a difference. Warsow was a tad slow, but still playable, its just not as proper as a native install. I've run Warsow, Doom, Quake, Unreal and Duke Nukem all from within a VM and nearly all of them were fine with minor issues on Quake and Duke Nukem. While I have done it just for testing, its not nearly as effective as running the games natively, and high end stuff just won't have the frame rates you need, even with the latest VMware and VMtools, steam in a VM and things like Counter Strike would crush it. ![]() I wouldn't go the other route and virtualize Windows 7 if expecting to use it for gaming. Just put the VM on a separate HDD than the Host OS, helps with performance and paging. I've had several VMs open at the same time, while playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 at the same time, and everything was stable with all that going on, so if you want to keep uBuntu running all the time to stay updated, as long as your machine is beefy, you can leave the VM up 24/7 while still gaming or whatever else you want to do normally. You can convert your existing uBuntu installation to a VM if you have enough HDD space. I would say use windows 7 as a host and uBuntu in a VM for the best setup. Also, if you want to run 7 and ubuntu at the same time and still play games, minimum 4GB of ram, preferably 6 or more, and a 64-bit version of the host OS. Is it capable of virtualization? Might be capable in the CPU, but depending on the OEM (unless you built it yourself with the required specs) the bios might need settings enabled or an update sometimes to enable virtualization. This depends on your machines hardware and what it can handle.
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