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I would suggest VirtualBox. It just installed easily for me. I am |
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running it on my system with stable gentoo-sources kernel. |
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I just never had as much success with VMWare. |
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Good luck, |
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Steve Herber herber@×××××.com work: 206-221-7262 |
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Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 |
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> I've wanted to ask this for a while. I've never seen vmware running. |
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> I'm curious about running a few Windows apps on my AMD64 machine, if |
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> possible. Does stuff like sound work? I don't need any special |
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> hardware. (I think) Just disk, graphics and network. |
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> How well does this work? vmware seems to have a good reputation. What |
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> are the Open Source alternatives? |
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> If someone has a good pointer to something that walks a newbie through |
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> setting this up and running Win XP then that would be cool. I have XP |
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> licenses if necessary. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mark |
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