VMWare / Wine

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Feb 23 18:25:06 UTC 2007


Eberhard Roloff wrote:

> Patton Echols wrote:
> 
>   Again, this is probably one of those things
>> that is obvious once you have worked with it even a little bit, I've
>> been reading but have not attempted to do either.  I had mostly
>> concluded from reading that the VMWare route was the better choice, but
>> since it takes more setup,
> no, it does not. The setup is extremely simply and also well explained
> on the ubuntu wiki.

I would agree.  I finally switched my one app from Wine (horribly difficult
to keep working, though it did work) to vmware.  Now, I'll have to recreate
my vmware virtual disk every month, I think, because it won't accept my
perfectly valid (OEM) Windows license, but that's less hassle than Wine.

-- 
derek





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