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ubuntu not fully functional as a guest in windows xp

Asked by osamakhaleel

Hi,

I am using vmware workstation 6.5 and installed ubuntu 9.04 as the virtual machine, installation worked smoothly and the virtual machine work fine for most parts, the area i am having trouble with is windows partions; which is totally undetected by ubuntu (guest) and the partitions are both ntfs and fat32 so its not ntfs partitons configuration issue, also i cant enable extra visual effects in appearence applet,
one last think; also the root account is disabled in guest OS,
All these problems didnt appear when i boot onto ubuntu environment directly from the live cd so i think all these problems relate to virtual machine software,
so please, if there is no work around this with vmware workstation, at least someone recommend virtual machine software that he/she test it with similar senario (windows xp "host" and ubuntu "guest") and the guest is fully functional

MS virtual pc does not even install the linux virtual machine and gave me black screen with bunch of cryptic log lines,

thanx

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Ryan Dwyer (ryandwyer) said : 		#1

The guest machine isn't able to see the host's drives unless the host is set up to share it using network file sharing. This is by design.

The root account is disabled in Ubuntu. Instead, users in the admin group are given permission to use sudo which grants them temporary root privileges. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

For the extra visual effects, you might need to enable video acceleration in the virtual machine settings. You could try and install the virtualbox-guest-additions package in the Ubuntu guest but I'm not sure if that works with VMWare.

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