The free player will run anything you want, it just won't *create* a virtual machine. That doesn't matter, since there are tons of free VM images available online - you just download one and install your own copy of Windows onto it and then load whatever you want.
With the VMWare solution you run an entire Windows computer in a window, so anything that will run on Windows (well, almost anything) can run on a VMWare VM. VMWare workstation and VMWare Server (which is also free) will create VM images from scratch and do other cool tricks, but the player runs the VM's just as well. Vern John McKelvey wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Vern Ceder <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > John, > > I'm not sure exactly what you mean by VMBOX. As I see it, you have > two (and a half ;) ) options for handling your needs: > > 1. VMWare (player for free, workstation for $$) can run Windows VM's > very nicely - I (and quite a few others on this list) have been > doing that for years. QEMU is free, and also works, but is slower. > > > With the free player exactly what kinds of things can I run.. Minitab, > MSOffice, etc? > > Thanks! > > John > > > > 2. Wine will run MSOffice on Linux pretty well, and while I don't > remember the version, when I tried Minitab at school last year, it > ran OK on Wine also. > > 2.5. You can handle almost all of MSOffice's files with OpenOffice - > just today, I used OO to open a powerpoint file that was making > PowerPoint itself crash. Word files with form fields are messy, and > the spreadsheet graphing isn't as good, but everything else is > pretty good. Then you would just need to use Wine or VMWare for > things like Minitab... > > FWIW, > > Vern > > John McKelvey wrote: > > Any opinions on this for running Windoz apps under linux? Other > suggestions for this? Am about to give up and use Linux on my > laptop, but need to be able to edit edit/create Powerpoint > slides, and some other MSOffice pgms, as well as Minitab V15. > Thanks! > > John McKelvey > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > > > -- > This time for sure! > -Bullwinkle J. Moose > ----------------------------- > Vern Ceder, Director of Technology > Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137 > > -- This time for sure! -Bullwinkle J. Moose ----------------------------- Vern Ceder, Director of Technology Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137 _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
