Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2212 mails)

[Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David C. Rankin wrote:
> Mates,
> 
>         As a follow on to the previous Zen thread, I too would like further
> pre-install information on Zen verses vmware-Workstation. I'm
> dual-booting 10.2 and  XP on my laptop at present and I would like to
> install XP into a virtual machine within 10.2 so I don't need to ever
> reboot (now rarely) to get into XP. I have a P4 duo-core processor
> w/1Gig of RAM and plenty of harddrive space. Where can I get more info
> to see if Zen will work or whether I will have to try a closed source
> vmware-Workstation. The only apps I ever need in XP are quickbooks, and
> occasionally an old Micrografx Designer.

Have you tried Wine for these apps? They don't seem particularly demanding
and I would assume Wine would work. Much less taxing.

Personally, I don't feel that 1gb of RAM is really enough to do virtual
machines. Either your main machine or your virtual machine has to get
squeezed too much.

BTW, it is "Xen" not "Zen" "-)

There is also a new article on the wiki dealing with virtualization:

ttp://news.opensuse.org/?p=371

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