With help from UnicornRider, I have successfully installed and configured a Windows XP virtual machine, running on Kubuntu Feisty, that supports running my nasty MS Visual FoxPro application called "The Master Genealogist". This is a 60,000 person database that is very CPU-intensive. I previously ran TMG under Win4Lin Pro, but it runs about 15% faster under VM Player. I spent a week trying to get it to run under Wine and it won't go -- the Wine techs gave up on it. Screenshot attached (file size limit is also a clarity limit, unfortunately ...). It runs in a 1280x1024 window, on my 1600x1200 Kubuntu desktop. Notice that a USB printer and sound are working correctly, along with the CD ROM drive and Internet Explorer/ethernet.
Another very cool (to me) capability that I set up is SAMBA sharing between the Linux filesystem and this WinXP virtual machine. To Samba, it looks like 2 different computers, so it behaves accordingly. From within either OS, I can see the files in the other system, and copy them around as needed to take care of business. No need to worry about ntfs utilities, FAT32 partitions, or any of that stuff. It's 100% reiserfs, under Linux.
VMware Player 2.0 is a free (as in beer) download from VMWare, but it comes with a license and is proprietary.
Thanks Birdy.
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Another very cool (to me) capability that I set up is SAMBA sharing between the Linux filesystem and this WinXP virtual machine. To Samba, it looks like 2 different computers, so it behaves accordingly. From within either OS, I can see the files in the other system, and copy them around as needed to take care of business. No need to worry about ntfs utilities, FAT32 partitions, or any of that stuff. It's 100% reiserfs, under Linux.
VMware Player 2.0 is a free (as in beer) download from VMWare, but it comes with a license and is proprietary.
Thanks Birdy.
8)
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