Wine & Office 97

[Gunawan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eberhard Roloff" <tuxebi at gmx.de>
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: Wine & Office 97


> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> Eberhard Roloff wrote:
>>> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>>
>>>> You should consider a virtual machine, in that case.  If you're lucky,
>>>> it will abstract away the hardware incompatibility and let you run
>>>> Windows on Ubuntu full-time.
>>>>
>>>> Matt Flaschen
>>>>
>>> Yes I was using win 98se under vmware and office 97 respectively access
>>> 97 is not a problem. The only drawback:
>>> Since Win 9.x by design consumes 100% of your CPU, even when the OS is
>>> idle, anything outside your vmware session will be very slow.
>>
>> VMWare (along with other programs) will allow you to limit the CPU Hz
>> allocated to the VM.  See
>> http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_esx_resource_mgmt.pdf (e.g. p. 23)
>>
>> Matt Flaschen
>>
> Thanks!
> While that looks awesome for esx, I wonder how to do this with the free
> (as in money) vmware server? I looked araound but could not find anything.
> When I imagine the szenario of ten ex w98 machines now running Ubuntu, I
> can hardly imagine to install an esx server on any of them.
> A central esx server also might be out of reach.
>
> Any advice on how to do this with the cheaper versions?
>
> regards
> Eberhard
>

Thank you for the reply but I am not quite understand.
Did you advice me ('my friend') to using virtual machin such as vmware
on ubuntu and install win98 on the virtual machine?
is it vmware for ubuntu/linux free?

I have once knew the product called vmware infrastructure.
is it the same with esx server? I have no idea how to use it.
Do you have best practice experience on it?

Regards,
Gun