Re: [MLUG] Linux with Windows apps

[Michael Stegeman <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I've tried dual-booting, VirtualBox (VMware-like FOSS), and Wine. 

Personally, I did not enjoy dual-booting at all.  It was very much a 
pain in the neck to shut down Linux just to do one little thing in 
Windows, as you said. 

Wine is good for small programs now and then.  I'm not entirely sure if 
IE will work with Wine or not, but it's definitely worth a try.  Here's 
a link I found that may provide the solution you need: 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=553143

Now, for VirtualBox... There are a couple things that I do in Windows.  
I use PhotoShop, Excel (because OOo spreadsheet won't work right for a 
couple .xls files I have), and a couple small programs for some of my 
classes.  VirtualBox allows you to set the amount of hard drive, RAM, 
video memory, etc. you want to provide to the VM, which is really nice.  
My laptop has 1 GB of RAM, and i provide 512 MB to my Windows VM in 
order to run PhotoShop properly.  I'll admit, Linux does lag a small bit 
when running simultaneously with Windows, but this lagging is hardly 
noticeable if you don't give such a large chunk of your RAM to the VM.  
Here's a link if you want to check it out: http://www.virtualbox.org/

I hope you find what you need!

Mike



Mike Miller wrote:
> We'll be running Ubuntu on a desktop machine, but there are reasons 
> why we'll want to run Windows apps now and then, mostly to check that 
> certain things will work for Windows users (e.g., that a web page 
> works in IE for Windows).  What's the best solution?
>
> Dual-boot system?
>
> VMware?
>
> Xen?
>
> Wine?
>
> It seems that the dual-boot system would be easy to set up, and we 
> could even use a different HDD for each OS, but who really wants to 
> kill Linux and reboot the system to test a web page in IE?
>
> VMware sounds neat.  How much does it hurt the power of your Linux 
> system compared to running Linux alone?
>
> Xen - have you used it?  Is it like using VMware?  Will it slow down 
> the system or make it unstable?
>
> Wine sounds like it has occasional problems, but if it will run IE, 
> maybe that will be enough for us.  We have the Windows license and 
> don't mind using it if it will help.  Maybe with the native DLLs this 
> is a good choice.  Any thoughts?
>
> Mike
>
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