vmware

[thierry itty]

I had some basic apps running quite fine with wine (even so-called 
multimedia) but of course it doesn't mean everything will be ok
vmware (the free server version) is a very good solution, of course, but 
as Claude says, you'd better have the related hardware. dual-core 
processor and ram by gb is quite mandatory
If the windows apps can fit in an xp, you could avoid a w2k3 license
good luck

Claude Jones a écrit :

>On Fri January 19 2007 9:59 am, roland wrote:
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>>I tried this, but it is to complicated and unreliable. I think wine is  
>>nice wenn you want a ms explorer, office and some standard ms tools
>>I think crossover is better.
>>But then we tried win4lin. This is a nice product, but apparently not  
>>stable.
>>I think the only stable product is vmware, if one installes it the right  
>>way.
>>Nice thing also is that one can install an operating system and next to it
>>  another version. After testing the new version, you just copy the whole
>>data from old to new and continue. You even can do this from distance.
>>Looks nice to me.
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>>So?
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>Works for me. I would only suggest that you do this on the highest power 
>machine you can. I'm running FC6 with vmwareplayer running XP on a dual-core 
>Pentium D 2.66MHz with 1GB ram. It runs much faster than on my older P4 2.8 
>GHz machine with 1GB of ram. These days, I mostly leave my XP vm running all 
>the time and there's no noticeable performance hit for the things I do. I 
>haven't tried editing video when the vm was open, which is what I do a lot, 
>but otherwise, I've tested it under a lot of conditions. For most Windows 
>stuff that I do, I can't discern much difference between doing the same task 
>in my Linux based XP VM and my dedicated Windows desktop. Your results may 
>vary, depending on what sorts of databases you're dealing with and such. 
>Those tech-info databases may be an issue depending on their size, but I sort 
>of doubt they will be so big as to inhibit performance, but if they're really 
>big, I suppose they could . 
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