Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2212 mails)

[Jonathan Ervine <jervine@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 27 September 2007 19:01:26 Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> David C. Rankin wrote:
> > Mates,
> > 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.

You should also consider VMware Server. Yes, it's also closed source, 
but is freely available/downloadable.

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

I also agree that wine should be capable of running these applications. 
Of course, Crossover Office from Codeweavers is available to provide a 
shiny front end to wine to make using it much easier.

> 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.

/nods - 1GB is _just about_ enough to get one VM running, and it feels 
sluggish either in the VM, the host, or both :-)

> BTW, it is "Xen" not "Zen" "-)
>
> There is also a new article on the wiki dealing with virtualization:
>
> http://news.opensuse.org/?p=371

Also worth pointing out that Xen requires CPUs with the virtualisation 
technology on board to be able to virtualise Windows XP (you could also 
use LVM as well for that matter). You can check for this support in 
your processors by looking for the flags in /proc/cpuinfo - for AMD 
it's svm, for Intel it's vmx

Regards,
Jon
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