On 7/13/06, Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
- to use "Windows emulator" aka Wine (I know, it is NOT emulator) - or to use "PC emulator" + Windows installed (like VMware) ???
IME wine still has a lot of stabilty and compatibility issues, at least for the things software I need to run. But it get's better all the time, so you should try it. Be sure to use the ~arch version, and you will get new versions of wine within a day or so of them being released. One caveat: there have been problems getting wine to build on the x86_64 hosts. PC virtualization software (qemu+kqemu, vmware) with windows installed gives you by far the best compatibility and of those, I find vmware to be the most complete solution. I highly recommend this! One possibility here is to use a trial version of workstation to create your virtual machine, and then use the free vmware-player to run it. The only really serious problem I've had with vmware is that it has trouble keeping track of time on some systems (laptops). There are (ugly) workarounds for this, so let me know if you run into this. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
