[ale] VM ?

John Wells jb at sourceillustrated.com
Mon Feb 26 13:57:40 EST 2007


----- "Paul Cartwright" <paul_tbot at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> I am not at all familiar with VMware or virtualization, or whatever
> you call 
> running Windows under linux. My wife wants to be able to run windows
> under 
> SUSE without rebooting. Basically to run Quicken & Quickbooks.
> What are a few GOOD options? Is it VMware, or Zen, or.. a good doc
> tutorial, 
> or installation guide would be handy:)

Can't offer a tutorial currently, but the two free options you want to look at are Qemu and VMPlayer. I've used both and both work well...currently using VMPlayer to run Windows on top of Ubuntu Edgy. There are google-able utilities that will help you generate your config. 



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