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Hi, |
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OK - with the new machine up and running well enough to do some |
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work I really need to get some sort of virtualization going to see if |
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I can get around the fact that XP cannot be installed on this machine. |
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(at least not easily) I need to run TradeStation and I'd like to try |
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under Linux but Wine is ABSOLUTELY not an option. |
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I ran XP & TS on my older system (5 year old 3GHz AMD64) but it's |
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been a long time since I tried it. The performance was just OK. I |
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expect this machine may be acceptable. |
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To anyone familiar with this subject a few questions: |
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1) If I go the VMWare route is it vmware-workstation that I want? |
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2) Are there any prebuilt XP images that would save me the hassle of |
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installing Win XP and just allow me to validate with my existing keys? |
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Is this the purpose of vmware-player? (which doesn't seem to have |
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fetch restrictions...) |
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3) In some ways the most important question is what are the Open |
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Source alternatives and how easy are they to set up? |
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For now I'm working from this list of documents and the index in |
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the upper right: |
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http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/VMware_Workstation |
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Thanks! |
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- Mark |