From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G14pC-0006XR-5F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:18:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6DHF1UP021056; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:15:01 GMT Received: from ilievnet.com ([84.21.204.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6DH53OL002758 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:05:03 GMT Received: (qmail 32707 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2006 20:05:02 +0300 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.1.11?) (10.0.1.11) by 0 with SMTP; 13 Jul 2006 20:05:02 +0300 Message-ID: <44B67D3E.3090008@ilievnet.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:05:02 +0300 From: Daniel Iliev User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060704) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] : virtual Windows solution... References: <44B6685D.4080007@gmx.net> <7573e9640607130931t5b1ae3a9q79ea1450df09e822@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640607130931t5b1ae3a9q79ea1450df09e822@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5b68e502-3726-49d2-bcc7-a66ce5047ba6 X-Archives-Hash: 428124fc3a496fd841e0bbbb64edc6c0 Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/13/06, Jarry 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list