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[Dan Lund]

Or if you don't want to spend money on an emulator, you can use Qemu.
I've used it with Win98, WinXP, Gentoo, and some general tinkering.
I'm not going to say one's better than the other, I'm only saying that
it's a viable alternative in the open-source world. (console-based
along with Qemulator available for GUI based)

I do agree with Erich fully, when I was forced to have a couple of
Windows sessions running to house proprietary apps in their own
environment I did use VMWare in the same way he described... it let's
you sleep at night knowing no matter what you have access to a
snapshot to roll back on that isn't on that machine.  This was back in
2004, so Qemu has changed alot in that time.  Of course so has VMWare,
with ESX and such :)

--Dan

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Erich Newell <erich.newell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not that it will help you in your current predicament, but I recommend
> running LINUX as your host OS and only run Windoze via VMWare. Snapshots are
> great. I maintain daily snapshots, which get wiped each weekend when I
> backup my VM to my NAS. On the NAS I maintain a rotation of 4 weeks worth of
> backups...My data is kept on "network" shares which are actually on the
> local host.
>
> Food for thought.

-- 
Thanks,
Dan Lund