[kwlug disc.] vmware/wine

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Tuesday 21 August 2007 11:24:21 am Insurance Squared Inc. wrote:
> As a result of expanding sideways in my business I'm going to need to
> run windows apps on a regular basis.  I've used wine occassionally but
> find that it doesn't run everything - I commonly get problems.  I
> downloaded the free vmware player though haven't run it yet.  However
> the docs seem to indicate that the free player won't let me actually
> open up a seperate window and run windows apps.  Is this correct?
>
> If so, what should I be running so that I can seamlessly run windows
> apps on my linux machine?  Would I just be better off with a seperate
> PC?  I've got a dual boot right now but rebooting all the time is a bit
> of a pain.

I've played with vmware, I've played with WINE, I've played with win4lin...  
None are really all that great, although win4lin was the best for it, IMO.

Why not use Xen on a VT-enabled processor and run both at the same time?

I'm new to Kubuntu, but it seems as easy as "apt-get install 
ubunutu-xen-server" and making a config file.

-A.