Andre Costa wrote:
Hi, I have here Fedora 8 and WinXP on the same machine. I use XP mostly for gaming, but every once in a while I have to edit some Word docs sent by clients on MS Word. ... As much as I wish, OpenOffice isn't just there yet, sometimes it messes with the docs, I already tried this and received complaints about format changes. It sucks, and eventually there will be 100% compatibility, but there's still some ground to cover. According to VMWare Workstation FAQ I could run my installed XP as a guest system, but I was wondering if there was no free alternative, since it costs USD 189,00 and I will only need it every once in a while. Anyone solved a similar problem? Any advice on what to use and what to avoid? Any pitfalls? Thks, Andre
qemu and qemu-kvm are alternatives. They perform better (IMO) then the commercial offerings, especially if you have a kvm compatible CPU.
$ qemu hda /dev/sda1 cdrom /dev/cdrom -net nic -net user -soundhw all -mem 512
Assuming Windoze to be on partition /dev/sda1, and that you have given yourself permission to use that partition, and the /dev/kvm device.
Good luck!
