windows vista

[sdavmor]

Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On 12/4/06, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>> sdavmor wrote:
>>> Brian Fahrlander wrote:
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>>>> sdavmor wrote:
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>>>>> I'm getting my family off Windows onto Ubuntu ASAP before they start
>>>>> bugging me about upgrading them to Vista. Just a few Windows app
>>>>> issues, but I think come January all that will be left will be my
>>>>> kids' games and my music workstation (which will remain until the NET
>>>>> 2.0 issues are solved for WINE).
>>>> How about VMWare? I'll bet there's no .NET issues, there...WINE
>>>> isn't trash, but VMWare's always been better. And now it's free,
>>>> too..
>>> I imagine VMWare or QEMU will be the interim solution. Thanks for
>>> pointing out VMWare's free option. I didn't know that was so. Learn
>>> something new every day...
>>>
>>> Eventually I'd like any carryover apps to be integrated under WINE
>>> rather than a virtual guest. Or better still replaced by an improved
>>> native *nix app... ;-)
>> FYI free VMWARE Server works. Qemu does not run windows.
> 
> When you say QEMU doesn't run Windows, are you talking about Windows
> Vista, right? Cause QEMU runs Windows 2003 Server and Windows XP
> seamlessly.

I'll revist QEMU in the future, but I had some issues getting it
going, and never could get the accelerator working. For now VMWare
seems to be more than adequate for those last few of apps I have to
have. The overall performance on my desktop (AMD 64 3800+ with 2gb
of DDR2 5400 memory) is pretty terrific.
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Cheers,
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