Fedora 8 with VMware and keeping Windows XP toolbar in the Fedora gui

yakxo · 04-07-2008, 07:02 AM

I have Fedora 8 installed with VMware. I installed Windows XP in VMware. Is it possible to keep the XP toolbar available while running Fedora 8 without having to launch VMWare? I was told this could be done but I haven't had any success at it. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

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redgoblin · 04-07-2008, 08:59 AM

Welcome Yakxo.

There might be some other trick to achieve this, but as far as I'm aware vmware will always need to be running. Here's a link that might help you get set up;

http://www.linux.com/feature/124908?theme=print

In that scenario Windows XP is running headless within the vmware server. I guess you might be able to not have the Win XP task bar and the vmware server off, then you could launch the vmware server and application from a single kde/gnome menu entry. Might take some tinkering.

yakxo · 04-08-2008, 06:11 AM

Thanks Red! I'm going to give it a try and see how it works out for me.