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I decided to really try to make virtual windows on linux work today. I am long been annoyed that for about 6 or 7 occasional computing things I have to boot into vista.well I am tired of it! Really the only reason I keep vista or windows for that matter, around is so that I can get into a few windows programs that I need for work. So I did a little poking and found out that I could install windows as a virtual machine on Ubuntu using VirtualBox. There are probably some others out there as well but this one seemed like it would be easy to install and easy to use. (And I have seen examples of people running Netflix successfully on it)
The first time I tried to install it I used the add/remove programs version. And that didn’t seem to work so I tried to install it through the synaptic package manager. And that didn’t seem to work all the way. So I went to their website and installed it through their installer. After following the user manuals instructions I got to the point where I was able to install windows and it was so exciting!

I have some playing around to do still. My goal is to be able to VPN into my work machine from my virtual machine. If I can make that work then I will wipe Vista from my machine, re-do the partitions on my machine and reinstall the virtual machine so that its got more than 4 gbs of space assigned to it (Netflix requires 3bg free to run) .

OOOOO can’t wait.

(Oh and again I understand why I married Mario. He is excited for me that I can get this working, and I think a little impressed ;)