Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[Nick LeRoy <nleroy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue April 27 2004 10:21 am, Riccardo Facchini wrote:
> --- Mitch Thompson <mitchthompson(at)satx.rr.com> wrote:
> > Give VMWare a try.  They offer a 30 day full-function demo.  Although
> > it
> > is quite an investment, and one that I had said I would never do, I
> > did
> > eventually buy a copy so I can teach myself setting up and running
> > Active
> > Directory (because of work).  I also got tired of rebooting into
> > Windows,
> > or my kids rebooting into Windows and not returning to Linux.  My
> > Linux
> > runs the house web server, IMAP server, and database.  VMWare is
> > cheaper
> > than buying a new PC to run Windows products on, and it takes up less
> > desktop space ;^).
> >
> > But, it is quite an investment just to play games.
>
> Yes, I thought of (and tested) it, but:
>
> a) That means I have to buy another product.
>
> b) I'm not completely sure that the use of an OEM Windows license is
> authorized on a VMWare VM. What happens when I have more VM ready to
> run?
>
> c) VMWare needs more resources, and games are normally resource-hungry.
>
> d) One of the specialized programs I use needs access to the OpenGL
> card, and the use of VMWare simulates a non-OpenGL card, so the
> software I use does not run on a vm.
>
> e) I'd hate to yield in front of the M$onster :-)

For playing games, I think that the solution you want is "winex" (or something 
like that).  I've never used it myself, but I understand that it can play a 
lot of M$ games.

-Nick

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