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From: Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] <OT>: virtual Windows solution...
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:05:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B67D3E.3090008@ilievnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7573e9640607130931t5b1ae3a9q79ea1450df09e822@mail.gmail.com>

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) ???
> 
> IME wine still has a lot of stabilty and compatibility issues, at
> least for the things software I need to run.  But it get's better all
> the time, so you should try it.  Be sure to use the ~arch version, and
> you will get new versions of wine within a day or so of them being
> released.  One caveat: there have been problems getting wine to build
> on the x86_64 hosts.
> 
> 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.
> 
> The only really serious problem I've had with vmware is that it has
> trouble keeping track of time on some systems (laptops).  There are
> (ugly) workarounds for this, so let me know if you run into this.
> 
> -Richard

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.

-- 
Best regards,
Daniel

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-13 17:18 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2006-07-13 18:16     ` Peter Ruskin
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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