Re: [TLUG]: running windows via kvm module -- any experiences?

On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 18:24 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:06:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
My girlfriend is buying a new computer a month or two from now and I'm
hoping to convince her to let me install ubuntu feisty on it, and set up
a windows VM using the new KVM module and rdesktop. The idea of the VM
is to let her use software she feels she 'really needs' -- right now,
this is MS Office, endnote and Dreamweaver (I'd like to make all 3
disappear, but that's another, longer-term project).

Remember KVM _requires_ a CPU with hardware virtualization instructions.
Not all CPUs have that. None of mine do so I certainly can't try it
out. :)

yes, I know. the core-duo hcips seem the obvious hcoice, probably
either a thinkpad x60 or a sony sz series.

Her main objection right now is that the person trying to convince her
is a known linux ideologue who spends hours at a time hacking on his
machine, and that she has no interest whatsoever in hacking -- she just
wants her computer to work for her in a fully transparent way.

Another option is vmware, although that may be too much trouble to use
as well.

I do want to keep it pretty fast. vmware is fairly straightforward to
set up on ubuntu now, htough, so that may actually be a pretty good
option.


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