On 10/29/18 8:19 AM, Roderick Anderson wrote:
Dick,
I haven't followed this thread so I may be completely off base.
Depending on what you're trying to accomplish you might look at KVM or
Wine.
Several HAMs and Linux users succeeded getting a Window only HAM radio
logging program running on Linux. I had tried several times before
but ran into too many problems. A little over a month ago using Linux
Mint 19 we got the program running under Wine on both 64bit and 32bit
processors.
The trick was installing Wind, Winetricks and wine32 on the 64bit
Linux Mint system. The Jet drivers were only 32bit. It could also be
that Wine had matured since my previous attempts a year or so ago.
I mention KVM because our Windows guru (well he makes his money
working on Windows machines) used KVM to install Linux Mint 19 32bit
on his Debian 64bit laptop. I think he said you can do the same with
Windows.
Thanks for your ideas.
My main reason to stay with VirtualBox is that I have a small handful of
older Windows programs that I infrequently use. Some have no open source
alternative. Others are ones that I learned years ago, and the learning
curve was steep. Open source alternatives would also require a steep
learning curve, and since I don't need them often, it's just easier to
use the old familiar ones. I have these in a VirtualBox .ova file. So
once I have VirtualBox installed, it's pretty easy to import the .ova.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
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