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
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