[ale] VM ?

[Jerry Yu]

if only a handful of windows app, what about WINE instead of VM ?

On 2/26/07, Jim <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
>
> Paul Cartwright wrote:
> > I am not at all familiar with VMware or virtualization, or whatever you
> call
> > running Windows under linux. My wife wants to be able to run windows
> under
> > SUSE without rebooting. Basically to run Quicken & Quickbooks.
> > What are a few GOOD options? Is it VMware, or Zen, or.. a good doc
> tutorial,
> > or installation guide would be handy:)
> >
> >
> VMware will let you run Windows as a guest under Linux, however it
> virtualizes all the hardware so if you like to be able to plug stuff
> into the box, like dongles, cameras, etc. and use them under Windows,
> forget it.
>
> To run Windows under VMware you will either need to boot an install disk
> and install a new copy of Windows into VMware or buy a special program
> that will create a VMware image from an existing windows partition.
> Both of those bring up issues with licenses.
>
> Xen will also let you boot a windows guest but in that case you have to
> boot an install disk AND it will only work if you have the newer
> hardware that supports hardware virtualization.  Intel Virtual
> Technology or the AMD equivalent, I forget the name.
>
> Qemu will also work but it's pretty slow compared to the other options.
>
> Jim.
>
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