On Sunday 15 November 2015 12:33:09 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Terry, > > > > I see by this old message that Terry and some others like VMWare so > > > I thought that I would go for that. > > > > vSphere is the professional system that costs megabucks, > > VMware are evil. http://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20151029-vmware_gpl/
But so are Oracle for reasons too numerous to mention. I'm sure that VMWare will get their come- uppance once it comes to court in Germany. > I've not used either, but https://www.virtualbox.org/ from the once > cuddly Sun, now Oracle, is an alternative. I used to use VirtualBox but gave up for several reasons: 1. Parlous behaviour regarding OpenOffice.org, amongst other things, when Oracle took it over. 2. Real problems trying to get USB to work in VBox. Just as soon as I fixed it, Oracle would release an update which broke it again. 3. I used to use VMWare at work and so it was a simple switch. For me it 'just works'; the installation script does everything necessary, including prompting to install the VMWare Tools add-on, without any need to find the right version yourself on the website as you do with VBox. I only need Windows to access two of my devices; my Mio Satnav and my efergy power monitor. Unfortunately both need USB support and won't run under wine. (In both cases the S/W is actually pretty dire, but it's all there is.) My other main Windows program (Memory Map) runs very well under wine (certainly much better than it runs in a VM). -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-12-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:[email protected] / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
