[clue-tech] Windows 7 recommendation

Jason Friedman jason at powerpull.net
Tue Oct 12 21:48:58 MDT 2010


> Your real problem will be convincing the powers that be to allow you to
> install Ubuntu either as the primary OS with Windows 7 running as a VM or
> installing Virtual PC for Windows 7 and installing Ubuntu as a VM.  In the
> latter case, you will need Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise.
> Windows 7 Home and Basic don't support Virtualization (marketing
> restriction).

The machine will come with a CD reader ... I should be able to at
least install Ubuntu side-by-side with Windows 7, no?  I did not know,
though, whether I could then run the existing Windows 7 partition (is
that the right word) as a virtual machine from within Ubuntu.


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