Wine is a very well working solution for running Win-apps under Linux.
Sometimes there are DLL's missing though, but they can easily be found with
help of Google. There are several public archives out there where one can
find them.
For example, I'm an old school Photoshop user. Gimp is very good nowadays
but it doesn't work as PS and therefore I'm forced to run PS to be fast
enough. I use Wine to run it on one of my Suse-boxes and it runs really
well.
I can run some test if it help (of course if it helps EMC, I'll do it!). I
have Solidedge and some CAM-apps I can test. If there's an app that is used
more than any other by EMC-users, let me know and I can try to get a demo of
it to make a test install.
Regards,
Sven
2007/11/21, Rafael Skodlar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Andrew Ayre wrote:
> > Duh - sorry, ignore. You can't set up a VM on a live CD because you
> > would be redistributing Windows. Gah...
> >
> >
> That's correct, but a bit confusing, I mean the way you suggest using
> VM. EMC is installed on the hard disk when in practical use. You should
> be able to run virtual machine in that kind of setting. However,
> virtualization takes it's toll on CPU and memory which would not work
> too well with real time applications.
>
> Including software to run virtual machines in live CD is not a problem
> for open source OS. You might be able to find virtual appliance with
> Windows 98 out there if I'm not mistaken.
>
> While possible and in some cases an interesting challenge to install all
> kinds of operating systems and applications in one system, I would
> rather dedicate a PC to a real time application and have everything else
> on another system. PCs are so cheap these days that it's easy to setup a
> PC for a single use, EMC in this case. If nothing else, a good reason to
> use a dedicated PC is to keep it close to the CNC machine, properly
> grounded and permanently connected. The requirements for such a PC are
> modest too.
>
> Here we enter more of a discussion for generic OS usage where the trend
> will be in direction of virtualizing applications so that OS will become
> mostly irrelevant in the future. Multicore CPUs are entering mainstream,
> BIOS will soon get either additions or be replaced with hypervisor code
> to enable first OS to boot in virtual mode.
>
> It's ridiculous that we cannot go without much hated commercial OS just
> to run some critical business applications because there are no good or
> well supported alternatives. It has been noted by the software giant,
> that never invented anything, as is now trying to catch up with yet
> another computer technology it missed completely.
>
> Proprietary software will be taken care of with virtual appliances for
> specific use as the products mature. Wine is getting better but it's
> left behind because of undocumented features it tries to emulate.
> Fortunately we have good and affordable alternatives, VirtualBox,
> mentioned by Andrew, VMware, qemu, etc.
>
> One low cost way with good support is to use VMware Workstation, create
> virtual machines with whatever OS you need, and then use free VMplayer
> to run it in other systems. Licensing is of course an exercise left to
> the user. As far as open source operating systems go, there are already
> numerous appliances available and supported by VMware community.
>
> > Andrew Ayre wrote:
> >
> >> Why not consider virtual machine programs like VirtualBox? It has a
> >> Seemless mode which means Windows application can run in the Linux
> >> desktop without needing the Windows desktop. I ran Solid Edge 2D like
> >> this without a problem.
> >>
> >> Andy
> >> ..........
> >>
> --
> Rafael
>
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