On Friday 30 January 2004 16:09, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I've noticed getting Vmware, IMHO, is harder to get setup than the 2 minutes it takes to get COO setup. At the same time, COO costs $40. From the VMware freshmeat page: It provides a virtual computer within Linux which can boot whichever OS you decide to put on the filesystem image that is used as a harddrive.
From the wine Freshmeat page: Wine Is Not an Emulator. It is an alternative implementation of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs. So the two are very different - VMware deals with hardware, whereas wine is more to do with software compatability. VMware would appear to be a more complex product which would explain why it is harder to setup. I am using it with no problems though - I use it as a sandbox for testing OSs and also for those little things that I don't have the time to get Wine to run - I find wine to be quite picky :g:
PS - I never really got VMW working right...then again...I'm an idiot. We're all idiots when it comes down to it :g:. When you say you never got it working "right", what particular bit is it that you couldn't get to work right?