--- Kurt Granroth wrote: > Josh Coffman wrote: > > I'm going to have a lot more need for using > windows > > at home, and I'd like to run it virtually so I can > > still boot on my beloved Fedora. Anyone able to > get > > WinXP running virtually on linux? Ugin win4lin? > > vmware? xen? > > > > Please help me avoid booting windows. > > Well, you will be booting Windows in any of those > solutions... it'll > just be inside of a virtual environment instead of > having to reboot. > The only way you can run Windows apps without > running Windows itself is > via Wine (or Crossover). That's highly dependent on > what app you want > to run, however, Yeah, I know I'm still booting Win in a virtual. Wine just won't cut it for what I need to do. > > You basically have two or three choices. Xen is > *not* a choice yet > since Windows will not run in it without code > changes. That will change > in the near future with virtualization support in > the CPU... but that's > not yet. > > Win4Lin is $80 or so. I haven't used it, > personally. It is reportedly > quite a bit slower than VMWare for Windows XP. It > also has mediocre > networking support, doesn't support USB devices > other than keyboard and > mouse, and no sound or advanced graphic support. On > the other hand, it > is far less resource intensive than VMWare so if > system memory and the > like is a premium, then it's a definite candidate. > And if you're > running Windows98 or earlier, than the Win4Lin 9x > series is quite fast. > > VMWare is likely your best bet. I run it quite a > bit. It used to be > that you had to pay massive amounts of money to run > it, but no longer. > Now you can download the VMWare Server or VMWare > Player for free. They > both work great. Both will run Windows XP > flawlessly. VMWare is a > resource pig, though, so I would be hesitant to run > it in anything less > than 1G of RAM. You *can* run it in less, but > again, I don't recommend it. > > Kurt Good advice on the win4lin vs vmware. I tried installing vmware server last night, but no luck. Any advice or articles? ╔══╗ ║ j≈ ╚══╝ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss