[fwlug] VMBOX

[Dutch Rapley]

Parallels also offers a VM solution that runs under Linux. It's way less
cheaper than VMWare's workstation at only $50.

http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/

I've never used it so I can't speak for it, but a lot of folks run Parallels
on their Macs to host Windows virtual machines.

-Dutch

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Vern Ceder <vceder at canterburyschool.org>
wrote:

> The free player will run anything you want, it just won't *create* a
> virtual machine. That doesn't matter, since there are tons of free VM
> images available online - you just download one and install your own
> copy of Windows onto it and then load whatever you want.
>
> With the VMWare solution you run an entire Windows computer in a window,
> so anything that will run on Windows (well, almost anything) can run on
> a VMWare VM.
>
> VMWare workstation and VMWare Server (which is also free) will create VM
> images from scratch and do other cool tricks, but the player runs the
> VM's just as well.
>
> Vern
>
> John McKelvey wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Vern Ceder <vceder at canterburyschool.org
> > <mailto:vceder at canterburyschool.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     John,
> >
> >     I'm not sure exactly what you mean by VMBOX. As I see it, you have
> >     two (and a half ;) ) options for handling your needs:
> >
> >     1. VMWare (player for free, workstation for $$) can run Windows VM's
> >     very nicely - I (and quite a few others on this list) have been
> >     doing that for years. QEMU is free, and also works, but is slower.
> >
> >
> > With the free player exactly what kinds of things can I run.. Minitab,
> > MSOffice, etc?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >     2. Wine will run MSOffice on Linux pretty well, and while I don't
> >     remember the version, when I tried Minitab at school last year, it
> >     ran OK on Wine also.
> >
> >     2.5. You can handle almost all of MSOffice's files with OpenOffice -
> >     just today, I used OO to open a powerpoint file that was making
> >     PowerPoint itself crash. Word files with form fields are messy, and
> >     the spreadsheet graphing isn't as good, but everything else is
> >     pretty good. Then you would just need to use Wine or VMWare for
> >     things like Minitab...
> >
> >     FWIW,
> >
> >     Vern
> >
> >     John McKelvey wrote:
> >
> >         Any opinions on this for running Windoz apps under linux? Other
> >         suggestions for this?  Am about to give up and use Linux on my
> >         laptop, but need to be able to edit edit/create Powerpoint
> >         slides, and some other  MSOffice pgms, as well as Minitab V15.
> >         Thanks!
> >
> >         John McKelvey
> >
> >
> >
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> >     -----------------------------
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> >     Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804
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> >
> >
>
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> -----------------------------
> Vern Ceder, Director of Technology
> Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804
> vceder at canterburyschool.org; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137
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