On Sunday 02 July 2006 18:18, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > > I have started a new job and find that I will have to use some > > applications which will run only under Windows (XP). I would like to > > run Linux on my desktop with a virtual XP machine running under it. In > > the (relatively distant) past I have use VMware for this. At the time, I > > convinced my employer to shell out the money for the VMware license. I > > have been informed that getting the money out of my current employer may > > be difficult and time consuming. In any event, I need to get some > > solution up and running right away, so they don't start pressuring me to > > put Windows on my desktop. I understand that VMware has a free "player" > > and that it is possible to hack it into installing XP. Is this as big a > > pain as it looks ? Has anyone done it ? Are there other possible > > solutions ? What do you recommend ? > > Use qemu (http://www.qemu.org/) or change jobs ;-)
I have installed and am using qemu. It seems to work pretty well. The only real problem I am having at the moment is with the cd drive. If I specify -cdrom /dev/hdc, and the cd drive is empty, qemu won't start. If I don't specify -cdrom /dev/hdc, I can't access the cdrom at all from qemu. Has anyone else experienced this ? > > Gilad -- The day is short, and the work is great, | Aharon Schkolnik and the laborers are lazy, and the reward | is great, and the Master of the house is | [EMAIL PROTECTED] impatient. - Ethics Of The Fathers Ch. 2 | 050-8724844 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
