Richard Fish wrote: > 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
I absolutely agree! I was going to write the same but Mr. Richard Fish was faster! ;-) Additionally known to me there are *CrossOver office* commercial product, site http://www.codeweavers.com/ ) and *Cedega* commercial product, site: http://www.transgaming.com/ AFAIK both of these are based on wine, but they are specialized respectively in running (MS) Office applications and games. The solution with the trial version & the free player of vmware is just great! It never occurred to me so I'm using qemu. No doubt VMWare is the best but it costs (much) money. -- Best regards, Daniel -- [email protected] mailing list
