On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 12:35 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Henning Larsen wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 11:53 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> It sure would be nice to run Windows Vista on my Linux desktop for a few > >> work-related tasks. This machine already dual-boots. I want to be able > >> to copy/paste from one environment to the other. > >> > >> Wine provides an emulation environment -- I'm looking for real Windows. > >> > >> I've read about Xen and we're using VMWare Enterprise at the office. > >> I'm unclear about the first, and I can't afford the second for a home > >> solution. > >> > >> Is this something anyone is doing on Fedora? If so, what are your > >> recommendations and caveats? > >> > > > > You can use vmware-serve which is free, or use qemu, kvm, xen which is > > included in fedora, depending on your processor's capabilities. > > > Isn't there also a restriction on what versions of Vista you can > virtualize? I remember reading something about Vista home not > working. (Microsoft restriction.) > > Mikkel I think it is about what you are allowed to do, myself I don't care and have virtualized the home premium version. BTW isn't it hard for an os to know it's running virtualized? Henning
