[TriLUG] WinXP in QEMU?

[Jason Tower]

actually, vmware workstation is only $189, and there used to be $100 LUG
discount on top of that (but i'm not sure if they are still honoring it).

jason

> David,
>
> Take a look at Win4Lin Pro.  Win4Lin recently released the Pro version
> which allows users to run XP and Win2k in a process under Linux.  It
> uses QEMU, and while it doesn't get the 'better than native' OS
> operation speeds of the Home version (which only runs Win95/98/ME, not
> 2k or XP), it does get fairly decent speeds, I'm told.  Plus, the OS
> doesn't know it's not native.  It does one thing, I know, that WINE
> never will, and that is support customized toolbars, VB extensions,
> and macros in MS Office.  There are, I'm sure, other things that
> you'll be able to do better as well.  VMWare will give you similar
> benefits, in many respects, but it does require a natively installed
> version of each OS, while Win4Lin installs the OS in the user's
> homedir.
>
> The biggest thing, though, is the price.  Win4Lin Pro is $100, while
> VMWare is $300.  VMWare is possibly better for the heavy duty power
> user, but for non-geeks, Win4Lin will probably do very well.  Note
> that it probably won't do serious games or graphics intensive stuff,
> if that's what her kids want, but it'll be fine for Quickbooks.  OOo
> will probably do the rest very well, but you'll be able to install
> Office on WinXP under Win4Lin, too, as well as most other Windows apps
> that she might need.
>
> With a free VM, you get what you pay for, in my opinion.  While many
> folks have gotten things to work perfectly, would you rather take the
> chance that you'll have hours of tweaks to get it to that point, only
> to have hours of work fixing it if it breaks, or would having a
> support source to help you out work better?  Plus, if this is her work
> laptop, it's a writeoff for the company.  Your call, though.
>
> -Ben Pitzer
>
>
> On Apr 7, 2005 12:12 PM, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> anyone have good success with WinXP Home/Pro in QEMU?? (I'll be trying
>> QEMU on CentOS 3.4 or 4.0 possibly).  CEO keeps having terrible
>> problems with her kids and her XP installation constantly crashing...
>> I've almost convinced her to try linux, but need to give her a way to
>> get to Microsoft Office and Quickbooks, figured a free VM is better
>> than paying for crossover or something.
>>
>> How'd the networking and how's QEMU on allowing the VM to access the
>> local /home of the host OS?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David McD
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