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From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] <OT>: virtual Windows solution...
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:31:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640607130931t5b1ae3a9q79ea1450df09e822@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B6685D.4080007@gmx.net>

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
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-13 16:44 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 [this message]
2006-07-13 17:05   ` Daniel Iliev
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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