Running windows programs under Linux

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 02:19:27AM +1000, Peter Goggin wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
I run MS Access in a VirtualBox virtual machine using XP.

My XP guest has 1Gb allocated to it so you should be OK with 2Gb of
memory in total, it might start getting a bit creaky if you try and do
too much at the same time in the Linux host.

-- 
Chris Green