Jerry Feldman pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:20:36 +0200 > gceruti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Folks >> >> I need to start getting all the household away from M$, dual boot is not the >> way, I would like them to load OpenSUSE and then if need be start the M$ >> program they need. >> >> So some questions: >> I must reinstall M$, I cannot use a PC that has M$ already installed. >> What are the options here , wine, Crossover Office, XEN, VMWARE. >> >> Is it possible to boot both operating systems at the same time and then >> switch >> betwen them. >> >> Any other ideas ?. > > Just trying to add a bit to what has already been stated. > Probably a best approach is to install either VMWare or Virtualbox > using Linux as a host OS, but it appears that Gerard has Windows > already installed. Additionally, VMWare has 2 free products: > 1. VMWare Player. VMWare player cannot create a virtual machine, you > can only use virtual machines that have already been created. > > 2. VMWare Server. I had this running on my Linux laptop last summer. > While this worked fine, when I started up the laptop, the Windows > virtual machine would also start up. The only other issue I had with > this was that my wife wanted XP so she could use the Big Brother feeds > which required Real Player 10 AND MSIE for the login. In this case > Crossover Office and WINE did not work. Also, occasionally, the feed > video would freeze, but I think that tweaking some options could > alleviate that. Other Real Player videos worked fine in XP or native > Linux. > > >
I have been using VirtualBox for over a month now and have even copied and used a VMware .vmdk disk image with it. I had to use the w2k install repair on it but it seems to work quite well. Saved having to re-install and configure w2k. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
