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Re: [PLUG] which way to go to run winxp apps in linux
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jondz wrote:
> I am completely clueless in windows so should i go to the direction of
> vmware or wine, or is there anything out there. I just want to run just
> a few programs just because i have to...
I think it depends on which programs and what you're looking for out of
them. I've gotten a few up via Wine and it's tons better than it used
to be, but....
My preference is VMware. I built an XP image, which I run in VMPlayer.
That should run whatever you throw at it, whereas Wine is a bit iffy
and requires some fiddling sometimes.
You can build images in Player - there are several guides online. You
essentially create a blank hard drive and point the player at your
CDROM, which should have an XP (or whatever) disk in it. So you're
doing a fresh XP install.
Ideally you keep a copy of this elsewhere, so you'll always have a clean
image, just in case.
I have no idea how it will perform on your machine, but I have done it
with my old AMD box under XP, running Ubuntu, XP, or 98 images, and it
performs acceptably.
If you go this way and need help, let me know.
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