Installing Ubuntu as a virtual machine in Windows XP Download VMWare Player http://www.vmware.com/download/player/ for Windows XP Download an ubuntu image from http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download In Windows XP create a new folder called VirtualMachines and place this in your C: drive Inside the VirtualMachines folder create another folder called Ubuntu Once the .iso file has downloaded, drag this in to folder Ubuntu you created above. Visit http://www.easyvmx.com/ and select super simple virtual machine creator Home - Apache - Ubuntu - MySQL - PHP - Misc Updated on: 2008-01-08 07:55:49