Running windows programs under Linux

[BONNET, Frank]

Hello
Have a look to KVM it's free




2014-08-24 18:19 GMT+02:00 Peter Goggin <petergoggin at bigpond.com>:

> 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
> I
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