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On 7/13/06, Jarry <jarry@×××.net> wrote: |
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> - to use "Windows emulator" aka Wine (I know, it is NOT emulator) |
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> - or to use "PC emulator" + Windows installed (like VMware) ??? |
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IME wine still has a lot of stabilty and compatibility issues, at |
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least for the things software I need to run. But it get's better all |
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the time, so you should try it. Be sure to use the ~arch version, and |
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you will get new versions of wine within a day or so of them being |
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released. One caveat: there have been problems getting wine to build |
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on the x86_64 hosts. |
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PC virtualization software (qemu+kqemu, vmware) with windows installed |
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gives you by far the best compatibility and of those, I find vmware to |
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be the most complete solution. I highly recommend this! One |
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possibility here is to use a trial version of workstation to create |
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your virtual machine, and then use the free vmware-player to run it. |
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The only really serious problem I've had with vmware is that it has |
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trouble keeping track of time on some systems (laptops). There are |
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(ugly) workarounds for this, so let me know if you run into this. |
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-Richard |
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