On 11/03/2009 11:00, Philip Stubbs wrote:
2009/3/11 Adam Bagnall<[email protected]>:
As neither sage nor office require 3d acceleration you could run windows
in a virtual machine using virtualbox. This would prevent any problems
with grub being overwritten and you wouldn't have to reboot to do the
windows work. The only caveat is that you need a fair bit of ram (enough
for both ubuntu and the windows vm) but that's pretty cheap these days.
I was reading the other day that with a windows client inside
virtualbox, 3d support is available. Not sure how complete it is, but
worth checking out if that's important.
From what I gather it's available in the Free for Personal Use version
of Virtualbox rather than the one in the repositories but saying that
there are still DEB packages available on the website at
www.virtualbox.org so it should be fairly easy to install that version
if 3D support is required.
Rob
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