On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 16:53, James Gregory wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 16:23 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 11:12, Del wrote: > > > Howard Lowndes wrote: > > > > The subject asks the question. > > > > > > > > > > I like vmware but you need more ram. I've had win4lin working OK > > > though. Horses for courses. > > > > I find vmware pathetically slow. Beside which you need full Windows > > You'll need a copy of Windows for Win4Lin. It also doesn't do a full > emulation like VMWare does. So while it's faster it also won't let you > run anything newer than Windows 98 (I believe this is because of MMU > stuff, but I don't actually know that much about this kinda thing so I'm > likely telling you complete lies on that. Does anyone know more?
I'm desparately trying not to run Windows, just Windows apps, specifically MYOB, and even single user at that. I don't want to take a chance on the user seeing anything else that Windows has other than the specific app. > > You might want to look into qemu: > > http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ > > Which can run Windows 98 according to this page: > > http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ossupport.html > > I've been tinkering with it over the last few weeks. I've not tried to > install windows on it, but the claim that it's fast is justified. The > really nice thing (to me) is that when the OS inside the virtual machine > is idling, the host system isn't burning cycles emulating the idleness. > I think that's awesome. > > Win4Lin will be less setup time though. The installer worked first time > for me the last time I tried it. > > HTH, > > James. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ "When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; when you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft." ------------------------------------------ "Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
