Running windows programs under Linux

[John Hupp]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM describes it as oriented toward 
server virtualization, and recommends VirtualBox, Parallels Workstation 
(or Parallels Desktop for Mac), or VMware Player/Server for other 
applications.

Does your experience differ from that?

On 8/25/2014 1:18 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote:
> +1 for KVM...
>
> You just need to run: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-virt
>
> ...to have a fully operation, working out-of-the-box, hypervisor.
>
> It will run much better/smooth than VirtualBox or VMWare.
>
>
> On 25 August 2014 06:05, BONNET, Frank <frank.bonnet at esiee.fr 
> <mailto:frank.bonnet at esiee.fr>> wrote:
>
>     Hello
>     Have a look to KVM it's free
>
>
>
>
>     2014-08-24 18:19 GMT+02:00 Peter Goggin <petergoggin at bigpond.com
>     <mailto: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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