On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:24:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > So if you were installing a system, just to run wine, would it >> > be multilib or hybrid (64 and 32 bit) ? > > There's no such thing as a hybrid system. Multilib is what you need to > run 32 bit software. > >> 1) Wine is 32-bit >> 2) Walter had a 64-bit only system >> 3) Walter had 2 choices: >> >> a) Wipe the system and start over making it a multi-lib system >> b) Create a 32-bit chroot > > Actually, he set up a 32-bit VM, in which case he may have been able to do > > c) Install Windows in the VM. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick
OK, that's a different reading of his words. You are likely correct, and that's identical to what I do using VMWare to run 32-bit XP or Virtualbox to run 64-bit Win 7. No reason for VMWare other than it's the one I started with. I've found over the last year I prefer Virtualbox. Cheers, Mark
