[CLUE-Tech] Win4Lin vs. VMWare vs. CrossOver Office

[Russell Glissmann]

Well, although VMWare is somewhat pricey, it does work flawlessly.  My
only problem occured when I upgraded to a different RH kernel that
appeared to be compiled differently and caused problems, but using the
stock kernel causes no problems.  
I've loaded Win NT 4, NT 2000, and XP, all without the OS being the
wiser.  The beauty is when you have enough RAM, you can run many of the
VMs at the same time.  If you do any kind of support, having the
multiple OSs can be really handy.  Since VMWare emulates the BIOS, the
OS itself can't tell that it isn't running on a separate machine, so
everything works.  Supposedly the latest version is even better, but I
haven't wanted to cough up the cash to upgrade, yet.

Russ
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 11:05, Hani Duwaik wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently came across this LUG and thought I'd subscribe to some of
> your mailing lists.
> 
> At the moment, I have recently installed RedHat 8.0 (soon to upgrade to
> 9.0) and am trying to use it as my primary desktop.  However, for
> various reasons, I need to use various tools in the Microsoft Office
> Suite.
> 
> In any case, I was wondering if anyone has had much experience with the
> following products which seem to provide interoperability with MS apps:
> 
> Win4Lin/VMWare/CrossOver Office
> 
> FYI:  I recently downloaded the trial version of CrossOver Office and
> was able to successfully install several MS apps.  However, I noticed
> that when using Outlook to access an IMAP system requiring SPA
> authentication, the CrossOver app freezes.  Otherwise, I find that it
> is very useable for other apps.
> 
> In regards to VMWare, I haven't used it in several years (I've toyed
> with Linux for about 5-6 years now) and the last time I used it, it was
> somewhat of a resource hog and had minimal performance (kind of
> sluggish) but I now have a much stronger system with more memory (an
> AMD 1500+ with 512MB).
> 
> I have no experience with Win4Lin.
> 
> 
> Any comments, thoughts, or feedback would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Hani
> 
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Russell Glissmann <rglissmann at rfgsolutions.com>