I have tried vmware, win4lin and crossover (wine). It seems that while vmware and win4lin are complete windows packages, there are extreme limitations on using them...ie purchasing multiple or server based licenses, kernel hooks and large memory consumption....blah. Crossover Office is really the way to go, I have gotten most MS products working on several nodes simutaniously... Excel, Word, Powerpoint, VisualStudio Suite (VB6, VC++), and Internat Exploder just to name a few apps (not to mention a host of other Windows products). The overhead seems to be quite less when using crossover, and doesn't require kernel hooks.
The only downfall with Crossover Office is that you must be a little linux savvy and have a lot of patience when trying to use unsupported MS products. VisualStudio is a good example of this, it is unsupported at CodeWeavers, but with a little tweaking of the shell scripts, perl scripts and file system, it runs flawlessly and even compiles the binaries and runs them. > Has anyone used vmware or something similiar to display > windows apps on the ltsp nodes? > > Mike - Lott Caskey - Magna Computer Corp.
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