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 1G14Ic-0007xj-96 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:44:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6DGff5a023993; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:41:41 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6DGV2mU025818 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:31:02 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o63so203331nfa for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:31:02 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=gP/ryIKR60SYkL1OwjOwOFmCwQs+cXKNxmpWHIyQ+0mzEdybpvWGrbase4VaXFnbNIlrUmyPHfoVSTrT5bVJ4IkpV89i/4TvuW9Tw9z1MR2QoRQixQim1AI3nLZIO1biTX1bLm/yLPlkxLXrilekfBJsD34LasLuqOXRix1ba/A= Received: by 10.78.165.16 with SMTP id n16mr859539hue; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:31:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.16.7 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:31:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640607130931t5b1ae3a9q79ea1450df09e822@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:31:01 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] : virtual Windows solution... In-Reply-To: <44B6685D.4080007@gmx.net> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44B6685D.4080007@gmx.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6769ed4aae18e34a X-Archives-Salt: a15435e9-846e-4ff6-94b4-81ffbfd58f92 X-Archives-Hash: 108e901d032c2d00818a210bd88f6cff 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list