actually, vmware workstation is only $189, and there used to be $100 LUG discount on top of that (but i'm not sure if they are still honoring it).
jason > David, > > Take a look at Win4Lin Pro. Win4Lin recently released the Pro version > which allows users to run XP and Win2k in a process under Linux. It > uses QEMU, and while it doesn't get the 'better than native' OS > operation speeds of the Home version (which only runs Win95/98/ME, not > 2k or XP), it does get fairly decent speeds, I'm told. Plus, the OS > doesn't know it's not native. It does one thing, I know, that WINE > never will, and that is support customized toolbars, VB extensions, > and macros in MS Office. There are, I'm sure, other things that > you'll be able to do better as well. VMWare will give you similar > benefits, in many respects, but it does require a natively installed > version of each OS, while Win4Lin installs the OS in the user's > homedir. > > The biggest thing, though, is the price. Win4Lin Pro is $100, while > VMWare is $300. VMWare is possibly better for the heavy duty power > user, but for non-geeks, Win4Lin will probably do very well. Note > that it probably won't do serious games or graphics intensive stuff, > if that's what her kids want, but it'll be fine for Quickbooks. OOo > will probably do the rest very well, but you'll be able to install > Office on WinXP under Win4Lin, too, as well as most other Windows apps > that she might need. > > With a free VM, you get what you pay for, in my opinion. While many > folks have gotten things to work perfectly, would you rather take the > chance that you'll have hours of tweaks to get it to that point, only > to have hours of work fixing it if it breaks, or would having a > support source to help you out work better? Plus, if this is her work > laptop, it's a writeoff for the company. Your call, though. > > -Ben Pitzer > > > On Apr 7, 2005 12:12 PM, David McDowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> anyone have good success with WinXP Home/Pro in QEMU?? (I'll be trying >> QEMU on CentOS 3.4 or 4.0 possibly). CEO keeps having terrible >> problems with her kids and her XP installation constantly crashing... >> I've almost convinced her to try linux, but need to give her a way to >> get to Microsoft Office and Quickbooks, figured a free VM is better >> than paying for crossover or something. >> >> How'd the networking and how's QEMU on allowing the VM to access the >> local /home of the host OS? >> >> Thanks, >> David McD >> -- >> TriLUG mailing list : >> http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug >> TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ >> TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ >> TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc >> > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
