Jerry Feldman pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:20:36 +0200 gceruti
wrote: Hi Folks
I need to start getting all the household away from M$, dual boot is not the way, I would like them to load OpenSUSE and then if need be start the M$ program they need.
So some questions: I must reinstall M$, I cannot use a PC that has M$ already installed. What are the options here , wine, Crossover Office, XEN, VMWARE.
Is it possible to boot both operating systems at the same time and then switch betwen them.
Any other ideas ?.
Just trying to add a bit to what has already been stated. Probably a best approach is to install either VMWare or Virtualbox using Linux as a host OS, but it appears that Gerard has Windows already installed. Additionally, VMWare has 2 free products: 1. VMWare Player. VMWare player cannot create a virtual machine, you can only use virtual machines that have already been created.
2. VMWare Server. I had this running on my Linux laptop last summer. While this worked fine, when I started up the laptop, the Windows virtual machine would also start up. The only other issue I had with this was that my wife wanted XP so she could use the Big Brother feeds which required Real Player 10 AND MSIE for the login. In this case Crossover Office and WINE did not work. Also, occasionally, the feed video would freeze, but I think that tweaking some options could alleviate that. Other Real Player videos worked fine in XP or native Linux.
I have been using VirtualBox for over a month now and have even copied and used a VMware .vmdk disk image with it. I had to use the w2k install repair on it but it seems to work quite well. Saved having to re-install and configure w2k. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org