On 8/14/07, Clint Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xen is painful for installing windows, KVM is not. VMWare is nice, > but its not open.
Well put. I guess the first question you should be asking is how new is your processor? if it has virtualization support, then I highly recommend KVM, as it's easy to install (modprobe kvm), and getting Windows installed on it isn't too hard. http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/HOWTO Without virtualization support, you are then left to vmware, virtualbox, parallels, and qemu. vmware is known to work, but as people have said, the best thing is to get the workstation, and it sounds like there is some constant maintenance. Virtualbox I believe is built on qemu, and is supposed to be rather light and fast. Parallels I know is a favorite on the Mac side, but I have heard nothing of it's Linux support. Qemu works fine, especially with the kqemu kernel module. It's performance is said to be pretty good, but I'm not sure on the details. Have you tried wine out for these programs yet? I can run the latest version of Picasa (not the Google distributed version) under wine and it works great! Adam -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
