On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 18:24 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:06:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > My girlfriend is buying a new computer a month or two from now and I'm > > hoping to convince her to let me install ubuntu feisty on it, and set up > > a windows VM using the new KVM module and rdesktop. The idea of the VM > > is to let her use software she feels she 'really needs' -- right now, > > this is MS Office, endnote and Dreamweaver (I'd like to make all 3 > > disappear, but that's another, longer-term project). > > Remember KVM _requires_ a CPU with hardware virtualization instructions. > Not all CPUs have that. None of mine do so I certainly can't try it > out. :) > yes, I know. the core-duo hcips seem the obvious hcoice, probably either a thinkpad x60 or a sony sz series.
> > Her main objection right now is that the person trying to convince her > > is a known linux ideologue who spends hours at a time hacking on his > > machine, and that she has no interest whatsoever in hacking -- she just > > wants her computer to work for her in a fully transparent way. > > Another option is vmware, although that may be too much trouble to use > as well. I do want to keep it pretty fast. vmware is fairly straightforward to set up on ubuntu now, htough, so that may actually be a pretty good option. > > -- > Len Sorensen > -- > The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ > TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns > How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists -- Matt Price History Dept University of Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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