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- Subject: Re: [MLUG] Linux with Windows apps
- From: Rick <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:19:05 -0500
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Fyi, my current workstation (the one I'm typing this email on), is a
dual-cpu P4 with 4g of ram running Ubuntu Feisty (switched from RHEL 4
when I had a drive croak). Running CompizFusion, + 3 multi-tabbed
Firefox session, VMware, Evolution, and various putty/ssh sessions works
just fine. I will occasionally run the memory into the ground if I start
up enough VMware sessions.
I run VMware 6.0 with usually 2 or so session running for various
reasons and it works great. VMware is a very flexible solution, but I
confess I have not spent adequate time researching Xen. If all they will
need is IE, then I'd probably suggest Wine or dropping a couple bucks on
Crossover just to remove the cost of maintaining a Windows install
(definitely with VMware, believe it would also be required with Xen).
I've bought Crossover a couple times, and it has always worked great.
Rick
On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 00:29 -0500, 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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