Running windows programs under Linux

[Peter Goggin]

I have installed ubuntu 14.04 on my test machine and installed Wine. I 
can get my Genealogy program(FTW) to install and run properly. I cannot 
get the transcription program I use (WinBMD7) to run after installing. 
The install creates two shortcuts on the desktop and neither runs the 
program. I have opened the directories under .wine and tried to run the 
executables, using wine program loader, but again the program would not 
start.

Since I cannot find a direct replacement for MS Access I am considering 
running Windows in a virtual machine. I understand that the two main 
programs are VMWare and VirtualBox. Most of my laptops have 2Gb of 
memory. Will this be sufficient to allow me to have Ubuntu as the main 
OS and run Windows XP in a virtual machine? Both the ubuntu and the 
windows are 32 bit versions.


Regards

Peter Goggin
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