Wubi
- Thread starter drak3
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It installs itself onto an image file on your Windows system. It then uses NTFS-3g and a special bootloader to read and mount this image as a complete working native system. Nothing is virtualized. If you don't want to use it any more you boot windows and remove it through add/remove programs. Nifty.
You'd get a more intelligent answer at the Wubi or Ubuntu forums, but my completely uninformed guess is no.
Soldato
Is this just an easier way to install Ubuntu. You cannot run this + Windows at the same time, correct?
Correct. It installs a new operating system using your current one to skip some of the drudgery of mucking around in the BIOS, partitioning, etc. In order to switch between the two OSes you need to reboot.
If you want to run both simultaneously check out VirtualBox.
If you want to run both simultaneously check out VirtualBox.
Soldato
I used, VMware to try that, and found it just very slow and buggy. Is VirtuaBox any better?
VMWare slow and buggy? That's not a good sign since it's the best VM product available. VirtualBox is a FOSS VM program intended, primarily, for desktop use. It's pretty good, but lacks some of the features of VMWare Workstation.
Associate
Grrr - wish I didn't install a dual partition of Gutsy with Vista on my laptop at Christmas now
Why? Having a proper multiple partition setup is always preferable. If your NTFS filesystem was somehow corrupted it would also nuke your Wubi/Ubuntu installation. Separating things insulates them from accidents.
Wubi is nice if you can't perform the old-fashioned types of installs for whatever reason.
Wubi is nice if you can't perform the old-fashioned types of installs for whatever reason.