[ale] VM ?

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 08:00 -0500, 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:)
> 
> Question:  Does she need the ability to cut+copy+paste between the host
> and the vm?
> 
> If the answer is no, then VirtualBox (http://virtualbox.org)  should
> work fine.  I've been using it for a while now and have been quite happy
> with it.  It replaced VMware, due to VMWare not working well between
> suspends and resumes, as well as interface switching (wifi to wired and
> back).
> 
> -Jim P.  
> 
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	Has anyone gotten VirtualBox to run? I tried it on my system at home
and it was a complete bust and wouldn't even boot up the guest OS.