I am using virtualbox to run xp within lucid.  works great for me.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

sam



On 3/31/2011 12:02 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
> Mark Wendt wrote:
>> Had you tried the open source desktop version before you went with the
>> commercial version?
>>
> I bought the commercial version specifically so I could make a support
> call.  No need to change anything now, and I know what to do when this
> particular error shows up.  other than that, it is very reliable, and I
> have 3 old Windows packages running on it, plus Samba file sharing, and
> it all works.  To support some of my oldest products, I need to run a
> Xilinx package from 1995 or so, and it has all sorts of licensing
> problems as Xilinx no longer can generate a license key for 3rd party
> software that was part of it, so it gets REALLY messy to get it all
> working again.  It usually takes me about 2 weeks to completely rebuild
> all the packages, so I am REALLY averse to changing anything!
>
> VMware must do a good job of hiding the open source version, I had no
> idea there was such a thing.
>
> Jon
>
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