So i guess I'll keep trying to get the virtual machines work properly then.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Andrew

Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti wrote:
> Sounds like you are installing the Vmware/VirtualBox guest additions. 
> They boost the performance of a Windows guest quite a bit.
> 
> I would use VirtualBox (not sure if its inside the OSE) with the 
> seamless feature. That allows you to hide your running VM and only show 
> the windows taskbar and IE. I think that to get a version of IE 5.5 you 
> need to install Windows 2000 since those are the only which still 
> support it.
> 
> On Nov 21, 2007 3:08 PM, Andrew 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> 
>     Well i have VMware Server 1.0.4 installed with WinXP as a virtual
>     machine, but when i start it up system becomes very unstable. I also
>     tried with Virtualbox OSE which totally killed my machine and also tried
>     KVM but my  processor seems to not support VT-x technology. I tried to
>     check the BIOS and even upgrading it but i had no success.
> 
>     VMware was the closest but machine works with hiccups when it's on.
>     Mind
>     you, i installed Ubuntu LAMP server as a virtual machine on vmware and
>     it works nicely, so it must be something related to the XP virtual
>     machine but i'm not sure what to tweak to make it work better.
> 
> 
> 
>     James Attard wrote:
>      > try running a windows virtual machine on your linux installation
>      >
>      > On Nov 21, 2007 1:42 PM, Andrew
>      > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>     <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>      > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>     <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     Hi,
>      >
>      >     I am running Ubuntu 7.10 but require IE 5.5 or 6 to be able
>     to use
>      >     Mailflow since Deerfield decided it should be supported only
>     by IE 5.5
>      >     or latest. I installed IE 4 Linux by Tatanka and although i
>     managed to
>      >     login to Mailflow, when i try to open certain tickets IE crashes
>      >     (Microsoft Style). I also tried installing User Agent
>     Switcher 0.6.10
>      >     for Firefox and managed to login to Mailflow too, but tickets
>     won't
>      >     open
>      >     (at least it doesn't crash).
>      >
>      >     Any suggestions?
>      >
>      >     Thks
>      >
>      >     Andrew
>      >
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