Quoting George Olson
Hello all, I have heard that there is a way to run a "windows shell" or something like that. As I slowly migrate from windows to Linux, there are still some critical program I need to access that run only on windows. Is there a way to open a "windows shell" and run those programs without having to shut down Linux and reboot to windows? If so, can someone help me figure out how to get something like that started?
If it is just a single, mainstream program that is not rewritten frequently (e.g. Quicken qualifies, TurboTax does not), it may run under Wine. If you have Windows installation CDs, you can install it in an virtual machine (VM). There are several VM packages: KVM, Xen, QEMU, VirtualBox, VMware. A temporary solution is to run the Windows 7 Release Candidate in a VM until it expires next summer. Audio and real-time games don't run well in a VM. Nor often anything requiring hardware acceleration for the video (there are exceptions, but it requires luck AND work). HTH, Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org