Re: [SLUG] win4lin

[DaZZa <dazza@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Bill Hiley wrote:

> For those of us poor souls who (occasionally of course) have to run a
> Windows program - does anyone have any experience with 'Win4Lin' and can
> offer any comparison with other products eg. Vmware, Wine etc

VMWare _rocks_. The current version is completely stable, and I love it.

I've got it installed at work - standard machines are P3/650's with 256
meg of RAM and a 15 gig HD. Running Winblows98 on these boxes resulted in
either out of resource errors, or GPF's at least daily.

I installed one box with SuSE 6.4, stuck VMWare on it, installed Winblows
under it {with all my required software}, logged into the LAN and away we
went. Now, Winblows98 is _MORE_ reliable under VMWare/Linux than it was
native! No joke. Less GPF's, and the resource problem isn;t an issue,
because I can run the program which chewed the resources under Linux,
where it doesn't use anywhere near as much.

I can't sing VMWare's praises enough. Especially since the boss paid for
it. :)

DaZZa