From: Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] <OT>: virtual Windows solution...
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:16:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607131916.56971.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B67D3E.3090008@ilievnet.com>
On Thursday 13 July 2006 18:05, Daniel Iliev wrote:
> Richard Fish wrote:
> > On 7/13/06, Jarry <jarry@gmx.net> wrote:
> >> - to use "Windows emulator" aka Wine (I know, it is NOT
> >> emulator) - or to use "PC emulator" + Windows installed (like
> >> VMware) ???
> >
> >
> > PC virtualization software (qemu+kqemu, vmware) with windows
> > installed gives you by far the best compatibility and of those,
> > I find vmware to be the most complete solution. I highly
> > recommend this! One possibility here is to use a trial version
> > of workstation to create your virtual machine, and then use the
> > free vmware-player to run it.
> >
>
> I absolutely agree! I was going to write the same but Mr. Richard
> Fish was faster! ;-)
> Additionally known to me there are
> *CrossOver office*
> commercial product,
> site http://www.codeweavers.com/ )
> and
> *Cedega*
> commercial product, site: http://www.transgaming.com/
>
> AFAIK both of these are based on wine, but they are specialized
> respectively in running (MS) Office applications and games.
>
>
> The solution with the trial version & the free player of vmware
> is just great! It never occurred to me so I'm using qemu. No
> doubt VMWare is the best but it costs (much) money.
>
The free vmware-player will unfortunately refuse to work if you have
more than one processor.
Win4LinPro works pretty well (win4lin.com), is cheaper than vmware,
but nonetheless pricy.
Parallels Workstation (parallels.com) is much more reasonably
priced, but won't work with kernel 2.6.17.
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Peter
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-13 15:35 [gentoo-user] <OT>: virtual Windows solution Jarry
2006-07-13 16:31 ` Richard Fish
2006-07-13 17:05 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-07-13 18:16 ` Peter Ruskin [this message]
2006-07-13 18:34 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-14 1:52 ` Anthony E. Caudel
2006-07-13 18:38 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-13 19:30 ` Jarry
2006-07-13 20:43 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-13 17:36 ` Rumen Yotov
2006-07-13 21:50 ` [gentoo-user] <OT>: [OT: JOKE]virtual " Daniel Iliev
[not found] ` <1f05046e0607131538h4fb83e6fx76e768c5bcc95fdd@mail.gmail.com>
2006-07-13 23:40 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-07-14 9:24 ` Nico Schümann
2006-07-14 10:50 ` jarry
2006-07-14 13:25 ` [gentoo-user] <OT>: [OT: ICQ] Todor Pirov
2006-07-27 12:35 ` [gentoo-user] <OT>: [OT: JOKE]virtual Windows solution Enrico Weigelt
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