Jerry Feldman schreef:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:35:02 +0100 Philippe Landau <lists@user-land.org> wrote:
Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
Since I have to use MS Office every now and then I would consider to run alternatively Windows and SuSE through WMware. Now I run MS Office through CrossOveR. Is WMware stable and reliable ? Yes, others recommend VirtualBox though (free too). Or if it is just for that: Crossover Office, which is not free. Which one is easier to install and backup ?
I found Virtualbox to be a bit easier to install than VMWare. However, VMWare, Virtualbox, WINE and Crossover Office (essentially WINE +) are all excellent products.
I think I would recommend using CrossoverOffice for Maura. CrossoverOffice and WINE are Linux native programs (and libraries) that fool Windows applications into believing they are running on Windows. Therefore, all your files can be kept on your Linux file system and available to you from Linux.
I found CrossOverOffice excruciatingly slow when using an Access database to print labels in Word. (About the only use I have for XP, apart from playing bridge on the net. :-) Now I use XP on Vmware and access my Linux filesystem with Samba (or whatever it is called now, cifs I believe). I also print via Samba, although in theory XP should be able to access the CUPS-server, but I never could get that to work. VMware is stable as a rock and in my set up you must not forget to restart the smb and nmb deamons after a Samba security update. :-) In short, YMMV. Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org