[kwlug disc.] vmware/wine

[John Van Ostrand]

On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 11:32 -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:

> 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.


It sounds like what you really want is shared disk and cut-n-paste
ability.  Even with VMWare or Xen you can get the shared disk by
exporting a Samba share to the Windows system. VMWare and Xen will run
in Windows in a window but you'll see a desktop, you won't get the
"seamless" look.

We use VMWare, very little wine and separate PCs for our Windows needs.
Separate PCs are for graphical and MS development tasks. We will VNC,
rdesktop, or KVM to get to it. For access to simple applications we use
VMWare and are experimenting with Xen on our newer VT enabled desktops.

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