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Currently I own an MacBookPro. For some reasons, I need to run Windows. So I installed Windows XP using VirtualBox (a free virtual machine). My questions is: Can my Windows XP (which run from my MacBook Pro) install another VM machine, which is VMplayer, then I want to install ubuntu in the VMPlayer?
(Yes, you may ask, why dont I install the Ubuntu (client and server) on my macbook virtualbox? Well, as I said earlier, for some specific reasons.)
S3/lag - never tried VirtualBox for gaming, but Parallels works flawlessly with Direct X emulation.
S3/damage - the only possible damage come to my mind is the overheating damage. My old macbook (white plastics) survived very looooong WordOfWarcraft play without damage. My friend with aluminium (pro) notebook needed repair his video and wifi card - both times overheating damage - but both times it is detected as Apple's fault...
Ps:
S4 - go out with your girlfriend - it is much better spent time... ;)
Yes it's possible. You don't need to install multiple virtualization software to run multiple virtualized systems.
You can use one virtualization software (VMware, Parallels or VirtualBox for example) to run multiple virtual machines at the same time.
You can edit the Virtual Machines.
You can change the amount of memory and the number of cores used by each virtual machine among other things, but it requires shutting down the VM you will edit.
For non Bootcamp virtual machines, you can also change the settings of virtual hard drives by creating new drives, removing existing ones or even resizing existing virtual hard drives (which are just files on your hard drive).
Getting the best of both worlds.
I would recommend you install Windows in Bootcamp first. Then back in Mac OS you create your Windows virtual machine from the bootcamp install. Follow this procedure.
This way you will be able to either launch Windows from Mac OS and run both systems at the same time and restart your computer to boot into Windows natively for better performance (for video games or power hungry applications).
Best Answer
This is definetely possible.
You might get diffrent resutls from diffrent tools though.
Furthermore be prepared that if you computer isn't really fast you might experience heavy lagging issue on your virtul virtual machine.
But otherwise the virtual machine will most likely run since itself will not see the diffrence in running on an actual machine or on another virtual one.