no more windows

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 09:19 -0500, Sean Carolan wrote:

> Some of us *MUST* keep a Windows installation around for running
> programs that are not available in Ubuntu.  In particular, I run
> Windows XP inside a virtual machine for the express purpose of running
> Outlook (LookOut!).  I don't think using VMware is a waste of time at
> all.  Once VMware is set up correctly it works perfectly and allows
> extra flexibility that dual-booting can never offer.  Different
> strokes for different folks.

I do the same. However, I do not run Outlook, but use the Evolution
Exchange connector.  It works well enough, but there are some problems
with limitations in the Exchage WebDAV API.  Hopefully, the Evo folks
will eventually put together a native MAPI interface.

> And to the other poster who had trouble with his wireless connection -
> the free VMWare server does not support bridging via wifi interfaces.
> This feature might be available in the paid VMWare workstation.

The wireless protocol does not support bridging as I recall.  It has to
do with having multiple MAC addresses on a single wireless interface.  I
run my VMware instances using NAT which works fine unless you are
running a network service on your Windows instance.
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Smoot Carl-Mitchell
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