Looking on the wine forum, running sage is a mix of alchemy and magic spells. Certainly not for the faint of heart, but evidently possible. My fall back, M.Y.O.B. (that we use) is also crippled. <div><br></div><div>Regards,</div>
<div><br></div><div>Phill.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 June 2012 15:02, Liam Proven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com" target="_blank">lproven@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 16 June 2012 11:06, richard <<a href="mailto:longforth1064@gmail.com">longforth1064@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Apologies if I have broken the rules,<br>
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</div>No, I have. Don't worry.<br>
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> but I am trying to bring the wife over<br>
> from the dark side. I have persuaded her to use linux on her new laptop but<br>
> she needs sage to do our accounts hence windows in virtualbox.<br>
> Which vm would anyone recommend, virtualbox or something else?<br>
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</div>I like Virtualbox, yes.<br>
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Have you tried to run Sage under WINE? That is much lighter-weight and<br>
gives better integration.<br>
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