[ale] A free alternative to VMWare and Win4Lin

[Courtney Thomas]

I know of no reason a Belkin would not be as functionally satisfactory 
for a laptop as desktop except it's bulky vis-a-vis the laptop and 
requires power.

So, I would guess VMWare or Win4Lin would be more suitable, but I must 
say it depends on your objectives and circumstances, about which I know 
nothing.

HTH,

Courtney



Robert L. Harris wrote:

> 
> Can you use a belkin on a laptop?
> 
>   I have a Linux laptop which does most of what I need.  Recent
> changes in my job now require me to use some windows tools but I won't
> give up my Linux laptop.  I put vmware on the laptop (1.4Ghz) and crank
> up VMWare with WinXP on it, do what I need to do then just suspend the
> Windows when not in use.  Fast recovery should I need it in a meeting,
> out of the way when I don't need it and easy recovery should I have to
> install and test some software for some reason.
> 
>   In addition I use VMWare to do my school work which works with IE only
> without having to dedicate a machine to windows.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> 
> Thus spake Courtney Thomas (ccthomas at joimail.com):
> 
> 
>>I appreciate your reply and understand your motive, but I bought another 
>>KVM in a similar situation :-)
>>
>>Belkins are cheap and mine have been running about 5 yrs without any 
>>problem.
>>
>>Cordially,
>>
>>Courtney
>>
>>
>>attriel wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>Thank you for the clarification.
>>>>
>>>>I fail to recognize the merit of this idea of increasing complexity.
>>>>Isn't Winders unstable enough without bringing down both ?
>>>>
>>>>Why not use a KVM switch and put both, but separate, on a local LAN ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Well, for instance:
>>>
>>>I'm setting up a test suite at the office.  B/c of the range of folks
>>>visiting our pages (intelligent to idiot), I end up needing:
>>>
>>>Linux, OSX, Windows 2k, Windows XP, Windows 98.
>>>
>>>Oh, but I need htem patched and unpatched.  B/c we have a lot of idiots :o
>>>
>>>I started setting it up, but I ran out of the 6 ports I had available on
>>>the KVM :o  So I'm looking to run virtual setups and stick it all on one
>>>box instead :)
>>>
>>>--attriel
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>>
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