Wine & Office 97

[Eberhard Roloff]

Gunawan wrote:
> ----- 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?
Yes! Doing it this way, as another poster said, you can sort of abstract
the hardware detection problems of win98. For win98, vmware looks like a
very average PC and Win98 will install there without any problems. On
the other hand, ubuntu/linux will most likely run on any (read: many)
modern hardware machines and vmware server will run on any ubuntu
installation. The result: You can operate win98 on any modern machine,
as long as ubuntu runs on it.

> is it vmware for ubuntu/linux free?
not entirely. VMware Workstation has a prize tag, as has esx server.
The good news: VMware Server is free (as in money) and you can use it
just like VMware workstation on a single PC. It actually can do much
more, but this is of no concern here, since it is a vmware workstation
that you want to "simulate" to run an abstracted virtual PC that runs win98.

> 
> 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?
VMware server is sort of entryproduct or testbed product to enter the
VMware Infrastructure where esx server is also a vital part.

However you do not need to care for this.

Just download VMware Server for Linux and VMware Server Console for
Linux, install those two, then install win98 and your friends
application inside Win98, then transfer the win98 install by simple file
copy to any other workstation that has vmware running and you are done.

Btw. There is also virtualbox and qemu that run win98 inside Linux
nicely. There may be others, but I have not much experience with any of
them.
> 
> Regards,
> Gun
> 
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