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?
> 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
> 
> 
Hi Gun,
possibly, you can also try this:
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/

If "silver" support works ok for you, then you could do a trial run with
Access 97/2000 without Win98.

Codeweavers builds a sophisticated enhanced wine version that is bundled
with very good support.

Kind regards
Eberhard