On 8/14/07, Adam Findley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Hmm, I hadn't heard of KVM. I was actually planning to relegate the kiddos to the old celeryon machine, which I'm sure doesn't have the new virtualization support. I might have to play with KVM on my new core 2 duo machine though... > 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! I haven't tried lately (as in, the last 2 years or so). Wine has always been such a pain, sometimes working, and sometimes not. The little CD-ROM games were especially difficult to get working. Has it gotten any better? Bryan -------------------- 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
