On Tue April 27 2004 10:21 am, Riccardo Facchini wrote:
--- Mitch Thompson
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 -- <<< The answer is out there, Neo. >>> /`-_ Nicholas R. LeRoy The Condor Project { }/ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~nleroy http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor \ / nleroy@cs.wisc.edu The University of Wisconsin |_*_| 608-265-5761 Department of Computer Sciences