vmware

[Alex Mandel]

Francesco Bolzoni wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 12:37 -0400, John Dangler wrote:
>> I've had problems running lots of win apps on both wine and crossover,
>> and a couple of members here recommended vmware as an alternative.
>>
>> Do I install vmware-server on the Ubuntu box and run the apps from it?
>> Or do I also need the vmware-player/workstation in order to run these
>> apps?
>>
>> Thanks for any input.
>>
>>
> I have just installed vmware server. After u must run it and install the
> guest OS. Really symple. I can't get any 3D game working, anyway...
> 

It's been stated the VMware server does not support gaming or 3d 
acceleration. For games you really need to get wine, cedega or the like 
running. For general apps I've had good luck with that so far.

Alex