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

[Crawford Rainwater]

On Russell's note, VMware 4.0 is RPM'ed and tgz'ed on the
CD if you purchase it.  I have W2k Pro running under it, need
to get back into Denver to test out some applications on it.
Aside from being a newbie with VMware and having to RTFM some
as well as consult a few non-newbies on it, seems to be doing
pretty good with just the base OS, and low resource settings
(just using 1GB of virtual space for it to see what it can do
at the moment, no network settings outside the local machine).

I did do an RHN upgrade of the kernel (2.4.20-13.9 I think it is
now) last Friday, nothing apparent just yet on issues.

FWIW.

--- Crawford

> -----Original Message-----
> From: clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us
> [mailto:clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us]On Behalf Of Russell Glissmann
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:42 PM
> To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
> Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] Win4Lin vs. VMWare vs. CrossOver Office
> 
> 
> 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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