[ale] VM ?

[Jim Popovitch]

On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 13:37 -0500, Jim wrote:
> Paul Cartwright 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:)
> >
> >   
> VMware will let you run Windows as a guest under Linux, however it 
> virtualizes all the hardware so if you like to be able to plug stuff 
> into the box, like dongles, cameras, etc. and use them under Windows, 
> forget it. 

What??!  That's not true.  VMWare guests can load USB dongles/devices, I
did it many times before switching to VBox on my laptop.  VBox too can
access USB devices, although it's config is a bit trickier.

-Jim P.
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