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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Getting Comfortable With Unix at Home Post 302240633 by jim mcnamara on Friday 26th of September 2008 07:14:51 AM
Old 09-26-2008
VMware used to cost quite a bit. Maybe there is a free download demo - I don't know.
You do understand that VMware allows two operating systems to run concurrently on your PC. And if you don't like ubuntu at all, you will have to uninstall a lot of software.

Otherwise, the plan is fine
 

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VMWARE(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							 VMWARE(4)

NAME

       vmware - VMware SVGA video driver

SYNOPSIS

       Section "Device"
	 Identifier "devname"
	 Driver "vmware"
	 ...
       EndSection

DESCRIPTION

       vmware is an Xorg driver for VMware virtual video cards.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS

       Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details.	This section only covers configuration details specific to this driver.

       The driver auto-detects the version of any virtual VMware SVGA adapter.

       The following driver Options are supported:

       Option "HWCursor" "boolean"
	      Enable or disable the HW cursor.	Default: off.

       Option "Xinerama" "boolean"
	      Disable or enable Xinerama support. Default: xinerama is enabled if the hardware supports it.

       Option "StaticXinerama" "string"
	      Provide  a  static  xinerama  geometry  that  will be active at server startup and will not be overridden at runtime.  The format is
	      "Width1xHeight1+Xoffset1+Yoffset1;Width2xHeight2+Xoffset2+Yoffset2" and so on. Negative offsets are not supported.

SEE ALSO

       Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)

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