Henning Larsen wrote:
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:
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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
Well, here [1] is an article on CNET on it. I think you're allowed, to
run Windows Vista virtualized. But with some versions, you need to
purchase another license key (if you want to run it virtualized & real).
On the other hand, AFAIK, you're allowed to run the Enterprise (the one
for large businesses) or the Ultimate version virtualized without
purchasing a new product key. But concerning this, I'm not really sure,
so I recommend you to look it up first...
Sebastian
[1] http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9854621-56.html
