Running windows programs under Linux

[Doug]

On 08/29/2014 12:13 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:54 AM,  <nilesrogoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Aug 29, 2014, at 3:39, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> AFAIK, there's no longer a kvm package in Ubuntu, except for a
>>> transitional qemu-kvm one.
>>>
>>> # dpkg -l | grep qemu
>>> ii  ipxe-qemu
>>> 1.0.0+git-20131111.c3d1e78-2ubuntu1                 all          PXE
>>> boot firmware - ROM images for qemu
>>> ii  qemu-keymaps
>>> 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.2                               all          QEMU
>>> keyboard maps
>>> ii  qemu-system-common
>>> 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.2                               amd64        QEMU
>>> full system emulation binaries (common files)
>>> ii  qemu-system-x86
>>> 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.2                               amd64        QEMU
>>> full system emulation binaries (x86)
>>> ii  qemu-utils
>>> 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.2                               amd64        QEMU
>>> utilities
>> I don't have access to a computer right now but also try apt-cache search kvm
> Please bottom-post.
>
> As I said above, there's a transitional qemu-kvm package that
> apt-cache would find.
>
> The point was, and I mis-expressed myself, that I'm running kvm
> without having a package named "*kvm*" installed.
>
Maybe I missed something. How do you run a program if you don't have 
that program?
--doug