On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 16:26 -0300, 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? VMware Player is a free (as in beer) download. ALl you need is to set up the virtual machine (e.g. using a trial install of Workstation, or importing it from someone who has the full version) and off you go. poc
