[kwlug disc.] vmware/wine

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On 8/21/07, Insurance Squared Inc. <gcooke at insurancesquared.com> 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.


If your requirements are modest, then qemu does the job fairly well.
It is free and chances are your distro has an rpm or deb for it already.

On ubuntu/kubuntu it is as simple as aptitude install qemu to get it,
but you need to create a virtual disk. Investigate making it in VMware
format in case you decide to do that later.

Caveats is that you cannot run specific hardware with it (e.g. USB devices,
...etc.).

But you can indeed boot Windows whenever you want from your Linux
desktop. I use it when I need to run MS IE, and it works well.

Copy and paste from host/guest and vice versa does not work. To share
files, you can do so via Samba or a vfat partition for moving things
around.
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