Windows 7 or 8 for a long term virtual guest? Which is more Virtualbox compatible and less dancing-paperclip disgusting?
My wife uses Linux, like me, but both of our accountants use Quickbooks for our businesses. I sometimes run two Windoze- only CAD tools, and she will try Dragon speech recognition. I sometimes test websites with Exploder and PDFs with Adobe Reader. Other than that, Linux does everything we want. Running some flavor of Windoze as a virtual guest is necessary, but we do NOT want to bother with all the "features" of the OS. Nor do we want to upgrade the OS for at least a decade. Our distro is 64 bit Scientific Linux 7 (like CentOS 7 and RHEL 7, a stable version of Fedora 20, vaguely like Ubuntu 14.04), with Mate desktop added, with long term support until 2027. I presume we will need to upgrade Quickbooks at least once to stay on the accountant treadmill, but we do NOT want to connect Windoze to the world for upgrades (or use Quickbooks online). The version of Quickbooks we are using now requires at least XP, and I imagine Intuit will stop supporting old distros for the newest versions. Which our accountants will buy to make data files incompatible with older versions. Don't you just LOVE the forced-upgrade deathmarch of proprietary software, and the reflexive upgrade mania of its consumers? Please upgrade to Electricity 2.0 and replace all your appliances :-( The host machines are 64 bit laptops and three servers. We will sometimes connect to the virtual machines over high bandwidth OpenVPN tunnels. So - to run only occasionally as a Virtualbox guest, which version of Windoze? What should we be watching out for? We must dance with the devil, but in a very limited way. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
